Genus
Valid Extinct

Cycnorhamphus

Seeley 1870

Cycnorhamphus is a genus of gallodactylid ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic period of France and Germany, about 152 million years ago. It is synonymous with the genus Gallodactylus.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Cycnorhamphus
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Holotype specimen of Pterodactylus suevicus (now classified as Cycnorhamphus), specimen number GPIT 80 (example 53 of Wellnhofer 1970) © Haplochromis · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Lophocratia Unranked clade
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Cycnorhamphus Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
3
Geological formations
Nusplingen Limestone
1
Liegende Bankkalk
1
Solnhofener Plattenkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Cycnorhamphus suevicus 152 Ma
Pterodactylus eurychirus subjective synonym of Cycnorhamphus suevicus 152 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
D. M. Unwin. 2002. On the systematic relationships of Cearadactylus atrox, an enigmatic Early Cretaceous pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil. Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 5:239-263 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
G. Dietl and G. Schweigert. 2011. Im Reich der Meerengel. Der Nusplinger Plattenkalk und seine Fossilien.
P. Wellnhofer. 1970. Die Pterodactyloidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands [The Pterydactyloidea (Pterosauria) of the Upper Jurassic plattenkalks of southern Germany]. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse Abhandlungen, Neue Folge 141:1-133