Normannognathus
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| Normannognathus wellnhoferi Buffetaut et al., 1998 |
Normannognathus (meaning "Normandy jaw") was a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Argiles d'Ecqueville of Octeville, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. It is based on Musée Géologique Cantonal de Lausanne 59'583, the front portion of a skull and lower jaws, and is distinguished by tooth count (5 per premaxilla, 9 or more per maxilla, and 14 per dentary) and the presence of a tall bony crest running down the midline of the upper jaw and having a concave leading margin. This crest is like that of Dsungaripterus, and larger than that in Germanodactylus.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Buffetaut, E., Lepage, J.-J., and Lepage, G. (1998). A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian of the Cap de la Hève (Normandy, France). Geological Magazine 135(5):719–722.
[edit] External Links
- Normannognathus in The Pterosaur Database
- Normannognathus in The Pterosauria
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