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Lonchodectes

Description

Lonchodectes (meaning "lance biter") was a genus of lonchodectid pterosaur from several formations dating to the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of England, mostly in the area around Kent. The species belonging to it had been assigned to Ornithocheirus until David Unwin's work of the 1990s and 2000s. Several potential species are known; most are based on scrappy remains, and have gone through several other generic assignments. The genus is part of the complex taxonomy issues surrounding Early Cretaceous pterosaurs from Brazil and England, such as Amblydectes, Anhanguera, Coloborhynchus, and Ornithocheirus.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4818284https://www.gbif.org/species/4818284
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)157392https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=157392
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pterosauria : Lonchodectes
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-PterosauromorphaPadian 1997
-Pterosauria
suborderPterodactyloideaPlieninger 1901
-LophocratiaUnwin 2003
superfamilyOrnithocheiroideaSeeley 1870
genusLonchodectesHooley 1914
Scientific NameLonchodectes Hooley, 1914
Name Published InAnn. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 13
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Lonchodectesgenusbelongs to Lonchodectidaestated without evidenceUnwin, 2001
Lonchodectesgenusbelongs to Lonchodectidaestated with evidenceUnwin, 2003
Lonchodectesgenusbelongs to Anhangueridaestated with evidenceVila Nova et al., 2014
Lonchodectesgenusbelongs to Ornithocheiroideastated with evidenceAndres et al., 2014
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)5
First Recorded Appearance113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance99.6 - 89.8 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Pterosauria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietpiscivore (based on Pterosauria)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. W. Hooley. 1914. On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens of the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8:529-557
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonchodectes

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Lonchodectes compressirostris
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1101 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
101 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Lonchodectes microdon
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
3105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Lonchodectes platystomus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
3113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1914Lonchodectes Hooley
2001Lonchodectes Unwin
2003Lonchodectes Unwin p. 145
2014Lonchodectes Andres et al.
2014Lonchodectes Vila Nova et al.

References

Hooley R. W. (1914) On the ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens of the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8, 529-557
Unwin D. M. (2001) An overview of the pterosaur assemblage from the Cambridge Greensand (Cretaceous) of Eastern England, Mitteilungen as dem Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 4, 189-222
Unwin D. M. (2003) On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 217, 139-190
Andres B., Clark J., et al (2014) The earliest pterodactyloid and the origin of the group, Current Biology 24, 1-6
Vila Nova B. C., Sayão J. M., et al (2014) Redescription of Cearadactylus atrox (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (Santana Group) of the Araripe Basin, Brazil, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 1, 126-134
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (8) 13 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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