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Lonchodectes compressirostris

Time
89.8–100.5 million years ago
Period
Unknown
Known sites
1
Pterodactylus compressirostris
Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Wilhelm Armin KellnerCC-BY-3.0File:Pterodactylus_compressirostris.jpg

Summary

Lonchodectes is a genus of lonchodectid pterosaur from several formations dating to the Turonian of England, mostly in the area around Kent. The species belonging to it had been assigned to Ornithocheirus until David Unwin's work of the 1990s and 2000s. Several potential species are known; most are based on scrappy remains, and have gone through several other generic assignments. The genus is part of the complex taxonomy issues surrounding Early Cretaceous pterosaurs from Brazil and England, such as Amblydectes, Anhanguera, Coloborhynchus, and Ornithocheirus.

Source: Wikipedia - Lonchodectes

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