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A new pterosaur specimen from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Cretaceous, Valanginian) of southern England and a review of Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874)
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Published:January 01, 2018
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Stanislas Rigal, David M. Martill, Steven C. Sweetman, 2018. "A new pterosaur specimen from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Cretaceous, Valanginian) of southern England and a review of Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874)", New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology, D.W. E. Hone, M. P. Witton, D. M. Martill
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Abstract:
A specimen of a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Early Cretaceous, Valanginian) of Bexhill, East Sussex, southern England is described. It comprises a small fragment of jaw with teeth, a partial vertebral column and associated incomplete wing bones. The juxtaposition of the bones suggests that the specimen was originally more complete and articulated. Its precise phylogenetic relationships are uncertain but it represents an indeterminate lonchodectid with affinities to Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874) which is reviewed here, and may belong in LonchodracoRodrigues & Kellner 2013. This specimen is only the third record of pterosaurs from this formation.
- affinities
- Archosauria
- bones
- Chordata
- Cretaceous
- dentition
- Diapsida
- East Sussex England
- England
- Europe
- extremities
- faunal studies
- fossil localities
- fossils
- Great Britain
- jaws
- Lower Cretaceous
- Mesozoic
- morphology
- phylogeny
- Pterosauria
- Reptilia
- revision
- skull
- spinal column
- Sussex England
- synonymy
- taxonomy
- teeth
- Tetrapoda
- United Kingdom
- Valanginian
- vertebrae
- Vertebrata
- Weald Clay
- Western Europe
- wings
- Pterodactyloidea
- Azhdarchoidea
- Lonchodectidae
- Bexhill England
- Monofenestrata
- Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation
- Lonchodraco
- Serradraco sagittirostris
- Lonchodectes sagittirostris