Species
Valid Extinct

Nicorhynchus capito

(Seeley 1870)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontia Unranked clade
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Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
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Anhangueridae Family
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Coloborhynchinae Subfamily
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Nicorhynchus Genus
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Nicorhynchus capito Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3
Geological formations
West Melbury Marly Chalk
3
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
3
Synonyms (1)
Ornithocheirus reedi subjective synonym of Nicorhynchus capito
Bibliography
Original description
H. G. Seeley. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
T. Rodrigues and A. W. A. Kellner. 2013. Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England. ZooKeys 308:1-112 DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge DOI ↗