Species
Valid Extinct

Dorygnathus banthensis

(Theodori 1831)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
35
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Rhamphorhynchinae Subfamily
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Dorygnathus Genus
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Dorygnathus banthensis Species
Fossil sites 35 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
34
🇫🇷 France
1
Geological formations
Posidonienschiefer
1
Temporal distribution
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
35
Synonyms (1)
Dorygnathus mistelgauensis subjective synonym of Dorygnathus banthensis
Bibliography
Original description
R. Owen. 1861. Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
K. Padian. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori, 1830). Special Papers in Palaeontology 80:1-64
D. Delsate and R. Wild. 2000. Premiere decouverte d'un reptile volant determinable (Pterosauria, Dorygnathus cf banthensis) du Toarcien inferieur (Jurassique inferieur) de Nancy (Lorraine, France). Bulletin de l'Académie et de la Societé Lorraine des Sciences 39(1-4):3-14
K. Padian and R. Wild. 1992. Studies of Liassic Pterosauria, I. The holotype and referred specimens of the Liassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori) in the Petrefaktensammlung Banz, northern Bavaria. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 225:59-77
P. Wellnhofer and B.-W. Vahldiek. 1986. Ein Flugsaurier-Rest aus dem Posidonienschiefer (Unter-Toarcium) von Schandelah bei Braunschweig. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 60:329-340 DOI ↗
R. Wild. 1971. Dorygnathus mistelgauensis n. sp., ein neuer Flugsaurier aus dem Lias Epsilon von Mistelgau (Fränkischer Jura). Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern und angrenzende Gebiete 21(4):178-195