Pterosauria - Pterodactyloidea - Euthygnatha - Ctenochasmatidae
Ctenochasmatidae
Family: Ctenochasmatidae Nopcsa, 1928 [Ctenochasma]
Genusame: Ctenochasma
Speciesname: elegans
Describer: Wagner, 1861
Distribution: Solnhofen limestone, Hanover marine limestone, southern Germany and France
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
Size: Wingspan = 1.2 m.
Diet: Info: (Ctenochasma elegans = comb jaw, elegant) Known from more than 6 specimens, but only two are more or less complete and articulated, an adult and a juvenile (originally named Pterodactylus elegans).
Genusame: Ctenochasma
Speciesname: gracile
Describer: Oppel, 1862
Distribution: Germany
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
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Info: Genus: Ctenochasma (\"crest claws\") von Meyer, 1852 Orginaly described on the basis of an isolated skull as a crocodile. Mainly know from the Late Jurassic of Europe.
Ctenochasma gracile
Genusame: Ctenochasma
Speciesname: porocristata
Describer: de Buisonjé, 1981 emend. Olshevsky, 1991
Distribution: Germany
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
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Info: Genus: Ctenochasma (\"crest claws\") von Meyer, 1852
Orginaly described on the basis of an isolated skull as a crocodile. Mainly know from the Late Jurassic of Europe. C. porocristata has a bony crest on its skull.
C. porocristatum = Ctenochasma porocristata de Buisonjé, 1981.
Genusame: Ctenochasma
Speciesname: roemeri
Describer: von Meyer, 1852
Distribution: Germany
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
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Info: Genus: Ctenochasma (\"crest claws\") von Meyer, 1852 Orginaly described on the basis of an isolated skull as a crocodile. Mainly know from the Late Jurassic of Europe.
C. roemeri = Ctenochasma römeri von Meyer, 1852
Genera ending in -chasma are neuter, not feminine, and so take neuter adjectival specific names. Hence the spelling change to C. porocristatum.
Genusame: Gnathosaurus
Speciesname: subulatus
Describer: von Meyer, 1834
Distribution: Solnhofen limestones, Southern Germany
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
Size: Skull length = 28cm. Wingspan estimate = 1.7 m.
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Info:Genus: Gnathosaurus von Meyer, 1834
G. subulatus = Crocodilus multidens Münster, 1832 = Gnathosaurus multidens (Münster, 1832) Walther, 1904 = Gavialis priscus Quenstedt, 1855 [nomen dubium] Gnathosaurus macrurus (Seeley, 1869) Howse & A. R. Milner, 1995 = Pterodactylus macrurus Seeley, 1869
(Gnathosaurus subulatus = jaw reptile)
Bits of Gnathosaurus jaw were discovered in 1832 and taken for a piece of crocodile jaw more than a century later in 1951 when a skul was found it was determined to be a pterosaur. G. subulatus had 130 teeth arranged laterally around the spoon-shaped tip.
Gnathosaurus subulatus
Genusame: Ctenochasma
Speciesname: sp.
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Distribution: France
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic
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Info:Genus: Gnathosaurus von Meyer, 1834
Genusame: Huanhepterus
Speciesname: quingyangensis
Describer: Dong, 1982
Distribution: Ordos, Gansu province, China
Timeperiod: Late Jurassic,
Size: Wingspan = 2.5 m.
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Info:Genus: Huanhepterus Dong, 1982 = Huanhopterus Dong, 1987 [sic]
H. quingyangensis = Huanhopterus qinyangensis Dong, 1987 [sic]
(Huanhepterus quingyangensis = wing from the River Huanhe) Know by a single skeleton. The crested front of the snout is lined with vertically implanted thin, tightly packed teeth suggesting a filter-feeding lifestyle. The back of the snout is toothless.
Genusame: Plataleorhynchus
Speciesname: streptophorodon
Describer: Howse & A. R. Milner, 1995
Distribution: Purbeck limestones, Dorset, England
Timeperiod: Tithonian, Late Jurassic or Berriasian, Early Cretaceous
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Info: Plataleorhynchus is known only from a fossilized snout, a rostrum bearing a terminal spatula which is completely flat and lined with laterally oriented teeth.