Lonchodectes machaerorhynchus Seeley 1864 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Alternative combination: Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1864. On pterodactyles and on a new species of Pterodactylus machaerorhynchus. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1864:228

Belongs to Lonchodectes according to D. M. Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: Lonchodectes compressirostris, Lonchodectes microdon, Lonchodectes platystomus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Ashwell (reworked)

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