Species
Valid Extinct

Lonchodectes microdon

(Seeley 1869)

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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
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Pteranodontia Unranked clade
Ornithocheiroidea Superfamily
Lonchodectes Genus
Lonchodectes microdon Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
3
Synonyms (2)
Ornithocheirus huxleyi subjective synonym of Lonchodectes microdon
Ornithocheirus oweni subjective synonym of Lonchodectes microdon
Bibliography
Original description
H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
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 ↗