Lonchodectidae
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Lonchodectidae or Lonchodraconidae is a group of pterosaurs within the clade Pterodactyloidea. It has variously been considered to be within Ctenochasmatoidea, Azhdarchoidea and Pteranodontoidea. They
Pterodactylus compressirostris
Holotype specimen of Ikrandraco
Campylogn DB
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Lonchodraco
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Lonchodraco is a genus of lonchodraconid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early and Late Cretaceous of southern England. The genus includes species that were previously assigned to other genera.
Lonchodectidae
…2013 considered Lonchodectes a nomen dubium, and named a new family, Lonchodraconidae, for the remaining species, which had been moved to the new genus Lonchodraco. Yixianopterus, Unwindia, Prejanopterus, Draigwenia, and Serradraco have also been considered possible lonchodectids. A taxonomic review of Lonchodectidae…
Lonchodraco
Lithograph of the L. giganteus lectotype rostrum, with associated and referred bones
1919 reconstruction of L. giganteus by von Arthaber
Holotype of the species L. machaerorhynchus, now assigned as Ikrandraco machaerorhynchus