Reptilia - Pterosauria

Alternative combination: Ornithocheirus microdon

Synonyms: Ornithocheirus huxleyi Seeley 1870, Ornithocheirus oweni Seeley 1870

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 Lonchodectes according to D. M. Unwin 2003

See also Rodrigues and Kellner 2013, Seeley 1870 and Unwin 2001

Sister taxa: Lonchodectes compressirostris, Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus, Lonchodectes platystomus

Type specimens:

• Lonchodectes microdon: 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.
• Ornithocheirus huxleyi: 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.
• Ornithocheirus oweni: 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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