Ornithocheirus
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Ornithocheirus is a pterosaur genus known from fragmentary fossil remains uncovered from sediments in the United Kingdom and possibly Morocco.
Ornithocheirus simus
Lithograph of the holotype, showing a tooth which perhaps did not belong with the specimen, and is now lost
Referred specimens MANCH L10832 and NHMUK PV OR 35412
Referred specimens CAMSM 54429 and CAMSM 54677
Tropeognathus
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Tropeognathus is a genus of large pterosaurs from the late Early Cretaceous of South America. This genus is considered to be a member of the family Anhangueridae, but several studies have also recover
Ornithocheirus
…from the Santana Formation of Brazil are sometimes classified as species of Ornithocheirus, but have also been placed in their own genera, most notably Tropeognathus. During the 19th century, in England many fragmentary pterosaur fossils were found in the Cambridge Greensand, a layer from the early Cretaceous, that…
Tropeognathus mesembrinus MN 01
Holotype specimen of T. mesembrinus (BSP 1987 I 46) in multiple views
Restoration of three flying individuals
Skull comparison of different anhanguerians, notice Tropeognathus (E and F) with a well-developed "keeled" crest