TENDAGURIPTERUS

Genus: Tendaguripterus Unwin & Heinrich, 1999

Etymology: "Tendaguru wing"

Type species: T. recki

Other Species: none

Diagnosis: See type species.

Classification: Pterodactyloidea incertae sedis


Species: T. recki Unwin & Heinrich, 1999

Etymology: "for Hans Reck"

Holotype: MB.R.1290 — Section of the mandibular symphysis. (Unwin & Heinrich, 1999)

Referred Specimens: none

Time: Kimmeridgian-Tithonian, Late Jurassic

Horizon: Middle Saurian Beds, Tendaguru

Location: Tendaguru, Tanzania

Skull length: ?

Total length: ?

Wingspan: ?

Mass: ?

Diagnosis: Posterior section of mandibular symphysiswith deeply concave ventral profile. Teeth in the posterior section of the mandibular symphysis inclined posterodorsally. (Unwin & Heinrich, 1999)

Comments:

References:
Unwin D. and Heinrich W-D. 1999, On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania).  Mitteilungen aus dem Museum Fuer Naturkunde in Berlin Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2, 1999: 121-134

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