Ornithocheiromorpha
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Ornithocheiromorpha is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. Fossil remains of this group date back from the Early to Late Cretaceous periods, around 140 to 92.5 million years ag
Tropeognathus mesembrinus MN 01
Coloborhynchus spielbergi 2
Associated and referred bones of Pterodactylus giganteus, now considered as Lonchodraco giganteus
Comparison between the holotypes of Tropeognathus mesembrinus and Ornithocheirus simus
Anhangueridae
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Anhangueridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. These pterosaurs were among the last to possess teeth. Members that belong to this group lived from the Early to Late Creta
Ornithocheiromorpha
…convoluted taxonomic history. It was named by Harry Seeley in 1870 as a family that contains Ornithocheirus and its relatives. The name was emended to Ornithocheiridae, to match the requirements of the ICZN Code that a family-ranked clade should end with an "-idae" suffix. Brian Andres (2010) in his review of pterosaur…
Holotype specimens of Ornithocheirus simus (A to D) and junior synonym O. platyrhinus (E to H)
Skull comparisons between different anhanguerians, notice the ornithocheirids Caulkicephalus (D), Tropeognathus (E and F) and Uktenadactylus (I and J)