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Fossil specimen : SM B 54423 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Reptilia

      Order Pterosauria

Fossil Name Ornithocheirus fittoni (Owen)
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Ornithocheirus fittoni (Owen) – See Hooley (1914)

Ornithocheirus fittoni (Owen) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Ornithocheirus fittoni (Owen) – See Seeley, H.G. (1870b)

Ptenodactylus fittoni (Owen)

Pterodactylus fittoni (Owen) – See Seeley, H.G. (1869a)

Pterodactylus fittoni Owen – See Owen (1859): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. B 54423
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Bonney, Rev. Thomas George (1833-1923)
Held By Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences Logo Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Comments
Location
Country England
Locality Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Cambridge Greensand
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Hooley 1914. On the Ornithosaurian genus Ornithocheirus with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (8), vol. xiii p.535

Owen 1859. A monograph on the fossil reptilia of the Cretaceous formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs supplement i p.2 pl. i figs.3 a-c

Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata (2 & 3): pp.6, xvi

Seeley, H.G. 1870 b. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of Pterodactyles...arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge p.118

Woods, H. 1891. Catalogue of the Type Fossils in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge. Henry Woods with preface by T. McKenny Hughes CUP. 180+xiv SPL: II. 16 p.172

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