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Fossil specimen : SM J 5339 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Reptilia

      Order Pterosauria

Fossil Name Doratorhynchus validus Seeley
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Doratorhynchus validus Seeley – See Delair (1958)

Doratorhynchus validum (Owen) – See Woods, H. (1891)

Ornithochirus validus (Owen) – See Lydekker, R. (1888c)

Doratorhynchus validus (Owen) – See Seeley, H.G. (1875b): Syntype

Pterodactylus macrurus Seeley – See Seeley, H.G. (1869a): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J 5339
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 Langton, Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Purbeck Bed
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Berriasian Age (Cretaceous Period) – Tithonian Age (Jurassic Period) (139.4 – 152.1 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Delair 1958 for 1957. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society vol. lxxix pp.70, 71

Lydekker, R. 1888 c. Catalogue of the fossil reptilia and amphibia in the British Museum part 1 p.26

Seeley, H.G. 1869 a. Index to the fossil remains of aves, ornithosauria and reptilia from the secondary system of strata pp. xix [ as 88 a in error for 82 a], 89

Seeley, H.G. 1875 b. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London vol. xxxi p.465

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.169

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