Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus Seeley 1864 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Lonchodraconidae

Alternative combinations: Ptenodactylus machaerorhynchus, Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1864. On pterodactyles and on a new species of Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1864:228

Belongs to Lonchodraco according to T. Rodrigues and A. W. A. Kellner 2013

See also Hooley 1914, Seeley 1864, Seeley 1869, Seeley 1870, Unwin 2001 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: Lonchodraco giganteus, Lonchodraco microdon

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 Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus in the database

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