Alternative combination: Ornithocheirus platystomus
Synonyms: Ornithocheirus daviesi Owen 1874, Ornithocheirus daviesii Owen 1874, Pterodactylus daviesii Owen 1874
Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co, Cambridge
Belongs to Lonchodectes according to D. M. Unwin 2003
See also Lydekker 1888, Owen 1874, Unwin 2001 and Zittel 1890
Sister taxa: Lonchodectes compressirostris, Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus, Lonchodectes microdon
Type specimens:
- Lonchodectes platystomus: Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom
- Pterodactylus daviesii: BMNH 43074, a mandible (Partial mandible). Its type locality is Folkestone pterosaurs, which is in an Albian marine horizon in the Gault Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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