Fossil specimen : SM B 54855 – Holotype
| Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Reptilia Order Pterosauria |
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| Fossil Name | Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus (Seeley) |
| Type Status | Holotype |
| Name History | Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus (Seeley) – See Hooley (1914) Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus Seeley – See Woods, H. (1891) Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1870b): Holotype Ptenodactylus machaerorhynchus (Seeley) nom. nud. – See Seeley, H.G. (1869a) |
| Registration No. | B 54855 |
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| Collector | Name not available |
| Donor or Associated Person | Farren |
| Held By |
 Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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| Comments |
| Country | England |
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| Locality | Ashwell, Hertfordshire, England |
| Grid Reference | Not available |
| Rock Unit | Cambridge Greensand |
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| Biozone | Not available |
| Geological Age |
Albian Age (Cretaceous Period) (100.5 – 113 Ma B.P.) |
| 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 Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata p.17 & p. xvi Seeley, H.G. 1870 b. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of Pterodactyles...arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge p.113 pl. xii figs.1-2 Seeley, H.G. 1871 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (4) vol. vii p.33 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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