Anhanguera piscator Kellner and Tomida 2000 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Alternative combination: Coloborhynchus piscator

Full reference: A. W. A. Kellner and Y. Tomida. 2000. Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil. National Science Museum Monograph 17:1-135

Belongs to Anhanguera according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Frey et al. 2003, Headden and Campos 2014, Martill and Unwin 2011, Rodrigues and Kellner 2008, Unwin 2002, Veldmeijer 2003, Veldmeijer et al. 2006 and Vila Nova et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Anhanguera araripensis, Anhanguera blittersdorffi, Anhanguera cuvieri, Anhanguera ligabuei, Anhanguera robustus, Anhanguera santanae

Type specimen: NSM-PV 19892, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Santana do Cariri (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Morocco (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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