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Fossil specimen : SM B 54485.1 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Reptilia

      Order Pterosauria

Fossil Name Ornithostoma Seeley
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Ornithostoma Seeley – See Hooley (1914)

Ornithostoma Seeley – See Woods, H. (1891)

Ornithostoma sedgwicki Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1891): Holotype

Ornithostoma Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1876)

Ornithostoma Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1871a)

Ornithosauria Bonaparte, 1838 – See Seeley, H.G. (1869a)

Pterodactylus – See Owen (1859)

Provenance
Registration No. B 54485.1
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
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 pp.530, 537

Owen 1859. A monograph on the fossil reptilia of the Cretaceous formations Palaeontographical Society Monographs supplement i p.18 pl. iv figs.4-5

Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata p.7

Seeley, H.G. 1870 b. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of Pterodactyles...arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge p.54

Seeley, H.G. 1871 a. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (4) vol. vii p.35 footnote

Seeley, H.G. 1876. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxii p.499

Seeley, H.G. 1891. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. (6) vol. vii p.442

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.174

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