Aerodraco sedgwickii Owen 1859

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Anhangueridae

Alternative combinations: Coloborhynchus sedgwickii, Ornithocheirus sedgwickii, Ptenodactylus sedgwickii, Pterodactylus sedgwickii

Full reference: R. Owen. 1859. On remains of new and gigantic species of pterodactyle (Pter. fittoni and Pter. sedgwickii) from the Upper Greensand near Cambridge. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 28:98-103

Belongs to Aerodraco according to B. Holgado and R. V. Pegas 2020

See also Martill and Unwin 2011, Owen 1859, Owen 1859, Owen 1859, Owen 1860, Owen 1861, Owen 1874, Rodrigues and Kellner 2013, Seeley 1869, Seeley 1870, Unwin 2001 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CAMSM B54.422, a partial skull (Rostrum). 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.

Distribution: found only at Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data]

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