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Ptenodactylus nasutus

Reptilia

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

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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
RankNameAuthor
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
Pterosauria(Kaup 1834)
genusPtenodactylus
speciesnasutus

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