Ptenodactylus microdon Seeley 1869 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Ptenodactylus according to H. G. Seeley 1869

See also Hooley 1914, Rodrigues and Kellner 2013, Seeley 1870, Unwin 2001 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: Ptenodactylus colorhinus, Ptenodactylus nasutus

Type specimen: CAMSM B54486, a partial skull (Premaxilla). 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.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ptenodactylus microdon in the database

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