Doratorhynchus
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| Doratorhynchus Fossil range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous |
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The genus Doratorhynchus (Seeley 1875) was created for a cervical vertebra discovered by Richard Owen in the Purbeck Limestone (Britain), identified as a pterosaur and named Pterodactylus validus in 1870. More scrappy material, including a wing phalange, was assigned to the type, and it came to be identified with other genera, including Ornithocheirus (Newton 1888) and Cycnorhamphus (Owen 1870). It has been placed in the family Azhdarchidae, but its position there is tenuous. Its remains come from the Jurassic/Cretaceous border.
[edit] References
Owen R; 1870, Monograph on the Order Pterosauria, Palaeontographical Society, London
Seeley H G; 1875, On the Ornithosaurian (Doratorhynchus validus) from the Purbeck Limestone of Langton near Swanage, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 31:465-468
Lydekker R., 1888, Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). I. London, pp. 2–42.
[edit] External links
The Pterosaur Database [1]
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