Genus
Valid Extinct

Gnathosaurus

Meyer 1833
Etymology mâchoire de lézard

Gnathosaurus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur containing two species: G. subulatus, named in 1833 from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, and G. macrurus, known from the Purbeck Limestone of the UK. Its fossil remains dated back to the Late Jurassic period.

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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Lophocratia Unranked clade
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Gnathosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
2
🇩🇪 Germany
1
Geological formations
Taynton Limestone
1
Solnhofener Plattenkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
1
Species (2)
Gnathosaurus macrurus 143 Ma
Gnathosaurus subulatus 149 Ma
Images 5
Bibliography
Original description
J. J., Jr. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
Bibliography (3)
E. Buffetaut and P. Jeffrey. 2012. A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate (Bathonian, Middle Jurassic) of Oxfordshire, England. Geological Magazine 149(3):552-556 DOI ↗
S. C. B. Howse and A. R. Milner. 1995. The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset. Bulletin of the Natural History Musuem, London (Geology) 51(1):73-88
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