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
Pteranodon
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When the first fossils of Pteranodon were found, they were assigned to toothed pterosaur genera, which includes Ornithocheirus and Pterodactylus. In 1876, Othniel Charles Marsh recognised it as a genu
Ornithocheirus
…macrorhinus and O. hlavaci. He also reassigned the species O. umbrosus and O. harpyia into Ornithocheirus, which were formerly species given to the genus Pteranodon by Edward Drinker Cope back in 1872. In 1914 Reginald Walter Hooley made a new attempt to structure the large number of species. Hooley synonymized…
Pteranodon amnh martyniuk
Early illustration of Ornithocheirus umbrosus (now Pteranodon), when teeth erroneously were attributed to the species and the crest was unknown, 1872
Short-crested P. longiceps holotype specimen YPM1177, now interpreted as a female individual
Skull and beak of specimen AMNH 7515