The PTEROSAURIA - Doratorhynchus

DORATORHYNCHUS

Genus: Doratorhynchus Seeley, 1875 [nomen vanum]

Etymology: "spear snout"

Type species: D. validus

Other Species: none

Diagnosis: Non-diagnostic.

Classification: Pterodactyloidea incertae sedis

Species: D. validus (Owen, 1870) Seeley, 1875 [nomen vanum]

Etymology: "strong"

Holotype: BMNH 40653 — A first or second phalanx of digit IV of the right manus of a large pterodactyloid exposed in the dorsal aspect. (Owen, 1870)

Referred Specimens: none

Time: Tithonian, Late Jurassic to Berriasian, Early Cretaceous

Horizon: Middle Purbeck Beds, Purbeck Limestone Formation

Location: "Swanage," Langton Matravers quarry, Purbeck, Dorset, England

Skull length: ?

Total length: ?

Wingspan: ?

Mass: ?

Diagnosis: Non-diagnostic.

Comments:

References:
Owen R. 1870. Monograph on the Order Pterosauria, Palaeontographical Society, London

Seeley H G. 1875. On the Ornithosaurian (Doratorhynchus validus) from the Purbeck Limestone of Langton near Swanage, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 31:465-468

Howse, S.C.B. & Milner A.R. 1995. The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset. Bull. Natural History Museum, London, (Geology) 51(1):73-88.