Also known as Pterodactylus macrurus, Plataleorhynchus holotypes
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• Unknown level in the Purbeck Group
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected in 1868
• SMC: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
Primary reference: S. C. B. Howse and A. R. Milner. 1995. The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset. Bulletin of the Natural History Musuem, London (Geology) 51(1):73-88 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92914: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009
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Taxonomic list
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Pterodactyloidea indet., "Pterodactylus validus n. sp." = Doratorhynchus validus, "Pterodactylus macrurus n. sp." = Gnathosaurus macrurus
"Pterodactylus validus n. sp." = Doratorhynchus validus Owen 1870 pterosaur BMNH 40653, wing-phalanx
"Pterodactylus macrurus n. sp." = Gnathosaurus macrurus Seeley 1869 pterosaur SMC J5339, anterior part of mandible
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Plataleorhynchus streptophorodon n. gen. n. sp.
Plataleorhynchus streptophorodon n. gen. n. sp. Howse and Milner 1995 pterosaur BMNH R.11957, rostrum
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