Explore: Pterodactylus

More fragmentary remains of Pterodactylus have tentatively been identified from elsewhere in Europe and in Africa. Pterodactylus was a generalist carnivore

1871, Marsh named the find Pterodactylus oweni, assigning it to the well-known (but much smaller) European genus Pterodactylus. Marsh also collected more

genera: Pterodactylus longicollum (von Meyer 1854) Pterodactylus vulturinus (Wagner 1857) Pterodactylus longicollis (Wagner 1858) Pterodactylus suevicus

However, technically, pterodactyl may refer to members of the genus Pterodactylus, and more broadly to members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea of the

species of pterosaurs previously classified in the genus Pterodactylus. It may refer to: "Pterodactylus" giganteus (Oken, 1819): Originally Ornithocephalus

species of Pterodactylus. However, at the time, many scientists incorrectly considered Ornithocephalus to be the valid name for Pterodactylus. This specimen

(meaning "lance biter") consisted of the former species Pterodactylus compressirostris, and Pterodactylus giganteus, which were reassigned as Lonchodectes compressirostris

S. Bennett reviewed the taxonomy of Pterodactylus, and synonymised P. kochi with the type species of Pterodactylus, P. antiquus. In 2014, Steven U. Vidovic

to the genus Pterodactylus. In 1859, Sir Richard Owen named pterosaur material from the Cambridge Greensand of England as Pterodactylus sedgwickii. At

time, many juvenile pterosaurs previously referred to as Pterodactylus micronyx and Pterodactylus elegans were referred to Ctenochasma. This included the