Ornithostoma sedgwicki Seeley 1871 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Synonym: Ornithostoma seeleyi Lydekker 1904

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1871. Additional evidence on the structure of the head in ornithosaurs from the Cambridge Upper Greensand; being a supplement to "The Ornithosauria". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7:20-36

Belongs to Ornithostoma according to A. O. Averianov 2012

See also Lydekker 1904, Seeley 1871 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Ornithostoma sedgwicki: CAMSM B.54485, a maxilla (Rostrum fragment (fused premaxillae and maxillae)). 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.
  • Ornithostoma seeleyi:

Ecology: volant piscivore

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

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