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Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Lonchodraconidae

Taxonomy
Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus was named by Seeley (1864). It is a 3D body fossil. 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.

It was recombined as Ptenodactylus machaerorhynchus by Seeley (1869); it was recombined as Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus by Seeley (1870); it was recombined as Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus by Hooley (1914), Unwin (2001) and Unwin (2003); it was recombined as Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus Seeley
1869Ptenodactylus machaerorhynchus Seeley
1870Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus Seeley
1914Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus Hooley
2001Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus Unwin
2003Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus Unwin p. 145
2013Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus Rodrigues and Kellner

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
orderPterosauriaKaup 1834
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
familyLonchodraconidae
genusLonchodraco
speciesmachaerorhynchus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: volanto
Diet: piscivoreo
Created: 2009-01-04 11:38:30
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:39:23
Source: o = order, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Padian 1985, Hendy et al. 2009
Collections
No collection or age range data are available