Reptilia - Pterosauria - Anhangueridae
Alternative combinations: Criorhynchus mesembrinus, Ornithocheirus mesembrinus
Full reference: P. Wellnhofer. 1987. New crested pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 27:175-186
Belongs to Tropeognathus according to B. Andres et al. 2014
See also Fastnacht 2001, Headden and Campos 2014, Kellner and Tomida 2000, Unwin 2003, Vila Nova et al. 2014 and Wellnhofer 1987
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BSP 1987 I 46, a skull (Skull and lower jaw). Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution: found only at Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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