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Serradraco sagittirostris

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Pterodactylus sagittirostris was named by Owen (1874). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is St Leonards-on-Sea, which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian terrestrial horizon in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Lonchodectes sagittirostris by Unwin (2001) and Unwin (2003); it was considered a nomen dubium by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013); it was recombined as Serradraco sagittirostris by Rigal et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Pterodactylus sagittirostris Owen p. 3 figs. Pl. II, figs 1-8
1900Pterodactylus sagittirostris Van Den Broeck p. 106
2001Lonchodectes sagittirostris Unwin pp. 209-210
2003Lonchodectes sagittirostris Unwin p. 145
2017Serradraco sagittirostris Rigal et al.

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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
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
Lophocratia
Ctenochasmatoidea(Unwin 1995)
Lonchodectidae(Hooley 1914)
genusSerradraco
speciessagittirostris()

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
ReferenceDiagnosis
S. Rigal et al. 2017Pterodactyloid pterosaur in which the raised alveolar borders slope steeply toward the dentary dorsal surface caudally and gently rostrally giving the lateral outline of the jaw a saw-like appearance. Dentition isodont and erect.