Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England
Author
Rodrigues, Taissa
Department of Biology, Agrarian Sciences Center, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo. Alto Universitario s / n, Caixa Postal 16, Guararema, CEP 29500 - 000, Alegre, ES, Brazil
taissa.rodrigues@gmail.com
Author
Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin
Laboratory of Systematics and Taphonomy of Fossil Vertebrates, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Museu Nacional / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Quinta da Boa Vista s / n, Sao Cristovao, CEP 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559
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Ornithocheirus eurygnathus Seeley, 1870
(nomen dubium)
Fig. 18E-H
"Ptenodactylus"
eurygnathus
Seeley:
Seeley 1869
: p. xvi [disclaimed]
Ornithocheirus eurygnathus
Seeley:
Seeley 1870
: p. 123
Amblydectes eurygnathus
(Seeley):
Hooley 1914
: p. 536
Criorhynchidae
incertae sedis
:Wellnhofer 1978
: 60
Coloborhynchus capito
(Seeley):
Unwin 2001
: table 1
Holotype.
CAMSM B54644, anterior fragment of an?upper jaw (
Fig. 18E-H
).
Type locality.
Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England.
Type horizon.
Cambridge Greensand (Cenomanian; fossils Albian in age).
Description.
CAMSM B54644 was tentatively identified by
Seeley (1870)
as the tip of a dentary. It has very large alveoli and an oval depression between the first pair of alveoli; it also has a median crest beginning at the tip of the jaw. Upon examination, it could be observed that the crest is fairly high, so the fragment could be an upper jaw. However, the presence of neither a palatal ridge nor a dentary sulcus could be recognized in the specimen, so it is not possible to identify it as an upper jaw with certainty. Therefore, we consider the species a
nomen dubium
.