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Encyclopedia > Coloborhynchus

Coloborhynchus is a genus of the extinct Pterosauria, family Crioryhnchidae from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous). There are several species, a few of which have been assigned to other genera, known from partial skulls and other fragmentary material: Suborders Rhamphorhynchoidea Pterodactyloidea Pterosaurs (TEH-row-sore, winged lizards) were flying reptiles of the clade Pterosauria. ... Albian (Fr. ... The Cretaceous period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic period (about 135 mya) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary period (65 mya). ...

  • C. clavirostris = (Owen, 1874) Type species.
  • C.sedgwicki (Owen 1859) = Ornithocheirus sedgwicki (Newton 1888)
  • C. araripensis (Wellnhofer 1985) from Brazil. Wingspan in excess of three metres.
  • C. wadleighi (Lee 1993) from Texas.
  • C.spielbergi (Veldmeijer 2003) from Brazil. Possible wingspan six metres.
  • C. piscator (Veldmeijer 2003) = Anhanguera piscator

Species (type) Ornithocheirus was a huge pterosaur from the early Cretaceous period of South America. ... Species Campos & Kellner, 1985 (type) (Wellnhofer, 1985) (Bowerbank vide Seeley, 1865) Unwin , 2000 (Owen, 1859) Unwin , 2000 Anhanguera is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous (Aptian) Santana Formation of Brazil. ...

Reference

The Pterosaur Database [1]



 

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