Pterosauria - Pterodactyloidea - Gallodactylidae
Gallodactylidae
Family: Gallodactylidae Fabre, 1974 = Gallodactylinae Fabre, 1981
Genusame: Gallodactylus
Speciesname: canjuersensis
Describer: (Fabre, 1974) Bennett, 1996
Distribution: France
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
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Info: Genus: Cycnorhamphus Seeley, 1870 = Cycnorhamphys Fabre, 1981 [sic] = Cygnorhamphus Seeley, 1870 [sic] = Cynorhamphus Romer, 1966 [sic]
= Gallodactylus Fabre, 1974
C. canjuersensis = Gallodactylus canjuersensis Fabre, 1974
The species in this genus are organized according to Fabre (1974) and Bennett (1996).
Genusame: Diopecephalus
Speciesname: longicollum
Describer: (von Meyer, 1854) Seeley, 1871
Distribution: Solnhofen limestone, Southern Germany, Upper Jurassic
Timeperiod:
Size: Wingspan = 1.45 m.
Diet:
Info: Genus: Diopecephalus Seeley, 1871 = Diocephalus Fabre, 1981 [sic]
D. longicollum = Pterodactylus longicollum von Meyer, 1854 = Gallodactylus longicollum (von Meyer, 1854) Fabre, 1974 = Pterodactylus longipes Münster, 1836 [nomen oblitum] = Ornithocephalus longipes (Münster, 1836) Olshevsky, 1978 [nomen oblitum] = Pterodactylus (Ornithocephalus) vulturinus Wagner, 1857 = Pterodactylus vulturinus (Wagner, 1857) Wagner, 1858 = Ornithocephalus vulturinus (Wagner, 1857) Olshevsky, 1978 = Pterodactylus longicollis Wagner, 1858 [sic] = Pterodactylus suevicus O. Fraas, 1878 non Oken, 1825 non Quenstedt, 1855 = Cycnorhamphus fraasii Seeley, 1891 = Cycnorhamphus fraasi (Seeley, 1901) Seeley, 1901 = Pterodactylus fraasi (Seeley, 1901)
The species Cycnorhamphus fraasii was originally described, briefly, in Seeley\'s 1891 paper on pterosaur pelves. Seeley refigured it (with the trivial name respelled) in his 1901 monograph Dragons of the Air. This document is often listed, incorrectly, as the original source of the species (e.g., in Wellnhofer, 1970 and Fabre, 1981).
(Diopecephalus longicollum = two appearance head, long neck) Diopecephalus is best known from a single crushed but articulated nearly complete skeleton presenting a curious mixture of ctenochasmatid characters (concave rostrum profile, obliquely protruding teeth) and tanydiropteran characters (long neck, long metacarpus, long hind limbs).