Ptenodactylus colorhinus 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 and Unwin 2001

Sister taxa: Ptenodactylus microdon, Ptenodactylus nasutus

Type specimen: 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 colorhinus in the database

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