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Ptenodactylus nasutus

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Taxonomy

Ptenodactylus nasutus was named by Seeley (1869). Its type specimen is CAMSM B 54556 (Premaxillary fragment) and is not a trace 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 Ornithocheirus nasutus by Seeley (1870) and Hooley (1914); it was synonymized subjectively with Pterodactylus fittoni by Unwin (2001); it was recombined as Camposipterus nasutus by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013).

Synonyms

Ornithocheirus polyodon was named by Seeley (1870). It is not a trace 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 synonymized subjectively with Pterodactylus fittoni by Unwin (2001).
Pterodactylus fittoni was named by Owen (1859). Its type specimen is CAMSM B54.423, a partial skull (Rostrum), and 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 fittoni by Seeley (1869); it was recombined as Ornithocheirus fittoni by Seeley (1870); it was recombined as Anhanguera fittoni by Unwin (2001) and Unwin (2003); it was synonymized subjectively with Camposipterus nasutus by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1859	Pterodactylus fittoni Owen p. 4
1860	Pterodactylus fittoni Owen p. 247
1861	Pterodactylus fittoni Owen p. 274
1869	Ptenodactylus fittoni Seeley
1869	Ptenodactylus nasutus Seeley
1870	Ornithocheirus fittoni Seeley
1870	Ornithocheirus nasutus Seeley p. 120
1870	Ornithocheirus polyodon Seeley p. 121
1914	Ornithocheirus nasutus Hooley
2001	Anhanguera fittoni Unwin
2003	Anhanguera fittoni Unwin p. 145
2013	Camposipterus nasutus Rodrigues and Kellner p. 37

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Pterosauromorpha	Padian 1997
order	Pterosauria	Kaup 1834
genus	Ptenodactylus
species	nasutus

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.

†Ptenodactylus nasutus Seeley 1869

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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: Hendy et al. 2009, Padian 1985, Carroll 1988

Collections

No collection or age range data are available