Lonchognathosaurus
Lonchognathosaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Dsungaripteridae |
Genus: | †Lonchognathosaurus Maisch, Matzke, and Sun, 2004 |
Species: | †L. acutirostris
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Binomial name | |
†Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris Maisch, Matzke, and Sun, 2004
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Lonchognathosaurus is a
China
.
The genus was named in 2004 by Michael Maisch, Andreas Matzke and Sun Ge. The type species is Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris. The genus name is derived from Greek lonchos, "lance", gnathos, "jaw" and sauros, "lizard", in reference to the fact that it is a reptile with pointed jaws. The specific name means "needle snout" in Latin.
Lonchognathosaurus is based on
sagittal crest was present, with grooves and a concave
leading margin.
The genus was, after a
sister taxon to Dsungaripterus.[1]
According to
junior synonym of Dsungaripterus weii.[2] David Hone on the other hand, argued in 2017 that the species could not be distinguished from Noripterus.[3] However, in 2021, postcranial elements referrable to Lonchognathosaurus, confirming the validity of the genus and providing new information on the anatomy of this pterosaur, were described from the Lower Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation (China) by Augustin et al..[4]
Averianov et al., (2022) described a distal fragment of the wing metacarpal from the Lower Cretaceous Ilek Formation in West Siberia, Russia and identified it as "nearly identical to the wing metacarpal of Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris."[5]
See also
References
- ^ Maisch, M.W., Matzke, A.T., and Ge Sun. (2004). A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China. Cretaceous Research 25:625-634.
- S2CID 53688256.
- ^ D.W.E. Hone, S. Jiang, and X. Xu, 2017, "A taxonomic revision of Noripterus complicidens and Asian members of the Dsungaripteridae", Geological Society SP455. New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology doi:10.1144/SP455.8
- S2CID 233790566.
- S2CID 248136173. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
External links
- Lonchognathosaurus in The Pterosauria