Lonchodectes Hooley, 1914

Averianov, A. O., 2020, Taxonomy of the Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea), Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 324 (1), pp. 41-55 : 45-46

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scientific name	Lonchodectes Hooley, 1914
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Genus Lonchodectes Hooley, 1914

Lonchodectes : Hooley 1914: 535; Kuhn 1967: 46; Unwin 2003: 179.

Type species. Pterodactylus compressirostris Owen, 1851 ( Kuhn 1967: 46).

Diagnosis. Differs from Lonchodraco Rodrigues et Kellner, 2013 by low rostrum lacking the premaxillary crest and considerably constricted transversely, and short palatal ridge, confined to the posterior part of the palate.

Included species. Type species only.

Comments. Lonchodectes cannot be currently distinguished from Ikrandraco Wang et al., 2014 (see comments to that taxon).