Lonchodraco giganteus ( Bowerbank, 1846 )

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 : 47

Lonchodraco giganteus ( Bowerbank, 1846)

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Pterodactylus giganteus : Bowerbank 1846: 8, pl. 1; Bowerbank 1848: pl. 2, figs 1–3; Owen 1851a: 91, pl. 31, figs 1–9, 12–13; Martill 2010: fig. 11.

Pterodactylus conirostris : Owen in Dixon 1850: 401, pl. 38, figs 4–6.

Ornithochirus (?) giganteus : Lydekker 1888: 12.

Ornithocheirus giganteus : Woodward 1888: 336; Wellnhofer 1978: 57, fig. 28; Milner 2002: 339, pl. 65, fig. 2.

Lonchodectes giganteus : Hooley 1914: 538; Unwin 2001: 210; Martill 2011: fig. 3; Witton 2013: fig. 12.2A.

Ornithodesmus (?) giganteus : Arthaber 1922: fig. 10.

Ornithocheirus compressirostris : Benton and Spencer 1995: fig. 8.20D.

Lonchodraco giganteus : Rodrigues and Kellner 2013: 24 , fig. 4.

Lectotype. NHMUK PV 39412 , anterior portions of the rostrum and mandible, incomplete scapulocoracoid, proximal ends of the humerus and ulna, and a partial wing phalanx. The lectotype was designated by Rodrigues and Kellner (2013).

Type locality and horizon. Culand Pits, Burham, Kent, England; Chalk Formation (Cenomanian-Turonian).

Diagnosis. As for the genus.

Figures

Fig. 2. Lonchodraco giganteus (Bowerbank, 1846), NHMUK PV 39412, holotype, anterior portions of the rostrum and mandible, in dorsal (A), anterior (B), right lateral (C), left lateral (D), and ventral (E) views, enlarged view of a tooth (F), and incomplete left scapulocoracoid, in lateral (G) and posterior (H) views (after Owen, 1851a: pl. 31, figs 1–8). Scale bars = 10 mm.