treatments-xml/data/E2/C6/5A/E2C65AFA2EC6795077B23FB2C3F72870.xml
2024-06-21 12:55:09 +02:00

247 lines
26 KiB
XML

<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-308-1" ID-Pensoft-UUID="FFA2FFFEFFE74632FFB7FFC7D553CE26" ID-Zenodo-Dep="577662" ID-ZooBank="EEC31850AAAB4081B05AB80A2D944658" ModsDocID="1313-2970-308-1" checkinTime="1451247225725" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rodrigues, Taissa &amp; Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin" docDate="2013" docId="E2C65AFA2EC6795077B23FB2C3F72870" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 308: 1-112" docOrigin="ZooKeys 308" docPubDate="2013-06-12" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559" docTitle="Lonchodraco Rodrigues &amp; Kellner 2013, gen. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="21B06042-1ED5-4368-90A7-07485E87B00B" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="6" id="FFA2FFFEFFE74632FFB7FFC7D553CE26" lastPageNumber="15" masterDocId="FFA2FFFEFFE74632FFB7FFC7D553CE26" masterDocTitle="Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England" masterLastPageNumber="112" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="14" updateTime="1634706563434" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods:titleInfo>
<mods:title>Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:role>
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart>Rodrigues, Taissa</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>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</mods:affiliation>
<mods:nameIdentifier type="email">taissa.rodrigues@gmail.com</mods:nameIdentifier>
</mods:name>
<mods:name type="personal">
<mods:role>
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart>Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>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</mods:affiliation>
</mods:name>
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
<mods:titleInfo>
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:part>
<mods:date>2013</mods:date>
<mods:detail type="pubDate">
<mods:number>2013-06-12</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:detail type="volume">
<mods:number>308</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:extent unit="page">
<mods:start>1</mods:start>
<mods:end>112</mods:end>
</mods:extent>
</mods:part>
</mods:relatedItem>
<mods:location>
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559</mods:url>
</mods:location>
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.308.5559</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-308-1</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="ZooBank">EEC31850AAAB4081B05AB80A2D944658</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-UUID">FFA2FFFEFFE74632FFB7FFC7D553CE26</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier type="Zenodo-Dep">577662</mods:identifier>
</mods:mods>
<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152044961" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:21B06042-1ED5-4368-90A7-07485E87B00B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E2C65AFA2EC6795077B23FB2C3F72870" lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="15" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="nomenclature">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:21B06042-1ED5-4368-90A7-07485E87B00B" authority="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner, 2013" authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lonchodraco" order="Pterosauria" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus" status="gen. n.">Lonchodraco</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="13" pageNumber="14">gen. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
Derived from the Greek
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">lonchos</emphasis>
, meaning lance, and Latin
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">draco</emphasis>
, meaning dragon.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="type species">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Type species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Pterodactylidae" genus="Pterodactylus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="giganteus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Pterodactylus giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Bowerbank, 1846.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="included species">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Included species.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="giganteus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Lonchodraco giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="machaerorhynchus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Seeley" baseAuthorityYear="1870" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="microdon">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Lonchodraco(?) microdon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="recorded temporal range">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Recorded temporal range.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Albian to Cenomanian / Turonian.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="recorded stratigraphic range">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Recorded stratigraphic range.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Cambridge Greensand and Chalk Formation, England.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
Pterodactyloid pterosaur with the following combination of characters that distinguishes it from other members of the clade (autapomorphies are marked with an asterisk): comparatively small alveoli (up to 4 mm in diameter) in the anterior portions of the upper and lower jaws; alveoli of the anterior portions of the upper and lower jaws without significant variation in size; alveoli placed in an elevation in relation to the palate and to the dorsal margin of the mandible*; deep palatal ridge; mandibular crest present; spacing between alveoli roughly equivalent to their diameters (modified from
<bibRefCitation author="Unwin, DM" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" pagination="189 - 221" publicationUrl="10.1002/mmng.20010040112" refId="B85" refString="Unwin, DM, 2001. An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 4: 189 - 221, 10.1002/mmng.20010040112" title="An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England." url="10.1002/mmng.20010040112" volume="4" year="2001">Unwin 2001</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="15" pageId="13" pageNumber="14" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="13" pageNumber="14">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="14" lastPageNumber="15" pageId="13" pageNumber="14">
<bibRefCitation author="Hooley, RW" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="529 - 557" publicationUrl="10.1080/00222931408693521" refId="B26" refString="Hooley, RW, 1914. On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 78: 529 - 557, 10.1080/00222931408693521" title="On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge." url="10.1080/00222931408693521" volume="78" year="1914">Hooley (1914)</bibRefCitation>
created the genus
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hooley" authorityYear="1914" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
<pageBreakToken pageId="14" pageNumber="15" start="start">Lonchodectes</pageBreakToken>
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, to which he assigned nine species. Six of them were listed in alphabetical order:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="compressirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes compressirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="" authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="subSpecies" subSpecies="sic">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes machaeorhynchus [sic]</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="microdon">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes microdon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="oweni">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes oweni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="scaphorhynchus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes scaphorhynchus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="tenuirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes tenuirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Other three were cited latter and referred to the genus, still in the same publication:
<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="daviesii">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes daviesii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="giganteus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sagittirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes sagittirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Hooley, RW" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="529 - 557" publicationUrl="10.1080/00222931408693521" refId="B26" refString="Hooley, RW, 1914. On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 78: 529 - 557, 10.1080/00222931408693521" title="On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge." url="10.1080/00222931408693521" volume="78" year="1914">Hooley 1914</bibRefCitation>
). There was no designation of a type species.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
Latter workers did not accept
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hooley" authorityYear="1914" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a valid genus.
<bibRefCitation author="Kuhn, O" journalOrPublisher="Verlag Oeben, Krailling bei Muenchen" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" refId="B42" refString="Kuhn, O, 1967. Die fossile Wirbeltierklasse Pterosauria. Verlag Oeben, Krailling bei Muenchen, 52 pp." title="Die fossile Wirbeltierklasse Pterosauria." year="1967">Kuhn (1967)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation author="Wellnhofer, P" journalOrPublisher="Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York" pageId="70" pageNumber="71" refId="B101" refString="Wellnhofer, P, 1978. Pterosauria. Handbuch der Palaeoherpetologie, Teil 19. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart and New York, 82 pp." title="Pterosauria. Handbuch der Palaeoherpetologie, Teil 19." year="1978">Wellnhofer (1978)</bibRefCitation>
considered it synonymous with
<taxonomicName authorityName="Seeley" authorityYear="1869" class="Reptilia" family="Anhangueridae" genus="Ornithocheirus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Ornithocheirus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Kuhn, O" journalOrPublisher="Verlag Oeben, Krailling bei Muenchen" pageId="67" pageNumber="68" refId="B42" refString="Kuhn, O, 1967. Die fossile Wirbeltierklasse Pterosauria. Verlag Oeben, Krailling bei Muenchen, 52 pp." title="Die fossile Wirbeltierklasse Pterosauria." year="1967">Kuhn (1967: 46)</bibRefCitation>
designated
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="compressirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes compressirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the type species of the genus, using the term
<normalizedToken originalValue="“Genotypus”">&quot;Genotypus&quot;</normalizedToken>
(see above). This is a valid subsequent designation under Article 69 of ICZN.
<bibRefCitation author="Unwin, DM" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe" pageId="69" pageNumber="70" pagination="189 - 221" publicationUrl="10.1002/mmng.20010040112" refId="B85" refString="Unwin, DM, 2001. An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fuer Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 4: 189 - 221, 10.1002/mmng.20010040112" title="An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England." url="10.1002/mmng.20010040112" volume="4" year="2001">Unwin (2001)</bibRefCitation>
, while reviewing the Cambridge Greensand pterosaurs, re-instated the genus and concluded that, of the nine species referred by
<bibRefCitation author="Hooley, RW" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="529 - 557" publicationUrl="10.1080/00222931408693521" refId="B26" refString="Hooley, RW, 1914. On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 78: 529 - 557, 10.1080/00222931408693521" title="On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge." url="10.1080/00222931408693521" volume="78" year="1914">Hooley (1914)</bibRefCitation>
, only five were valid:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="compressirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes compressirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="machaerorhynchus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="microdon">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes microdon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="giganteus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sagittirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes sagittirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. He also added another species to the genus,
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Seeley" baseAuthorityYear="1870" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="platystomus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes platystomus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which
<bibRefCitation author="Hooley, RW" journalOrPublisher="Annals and Magazine of Natural History" pageId="66" pageNumber="67" pagination="529 - 557" publicationUrl="10.1080/00222931408693521" refId="B26" refString="Hooley, RW, 1914. On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 78: 529 - 557, 10.1080/00222931408693521" title="On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge." url="10.1080/00222931408693521" volume="78" year="1914">Hooley (1914)</bibRefCitation>
had placed in the genus
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hooley" authorityYear="1914" class="Reptilia" genus="Amblydectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Amblydectes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="15">
In the present work,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="compressirostris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes compressirostris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is considered a
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">nomen dubium</emphasis>
(see below) and, therefore,a new genus,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodraco</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, is here erected to include three of the species previously referred to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hooley" authorityYear="1914" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodectidae" genus="Lonchodectes" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodectes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
:
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="giganteus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodraco giganteus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" baseAuthorityYear="2013" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="machaerorhynchus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Rodrigues &amp; Kellner" authorityYear="2013" baseAuthorityName="Seeley" baseAuthorityYear="1870" class="Reptilia" family="Lonchodraconidae" genus="Lonchodraco" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pterosauria" pageId="14" pageNumber="15" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="microdon">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="15">Lonchodraco(?) microdon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>