Amblydectes

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Amblydectes
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Family: Ornithocheiridae
Genus: Amblydectes
Hooley, 1914
Species
  • A. crassidens
  • A. eurygnathus
  • A. platystomus

Amblydectes is known from fragments of jaw. It apparently had a jaw flattened towards the tip and triangular in cross-section. It may be a synonym of Coloborhynchus, Criorhynchus, Lonchodectes, or Ornithocheirus.

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