Coloborhynchus

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Coloborhynchus
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous

Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Superfamily: Ornithocheiroidea
Family: Ornithocheiridae
Genus: Coloborhynchus
Owen, 1874
Species
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Coloborhynchus is a genus of the extinct Pterosauria, family Ornithocheiridae from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe, North America, and South America. There are several species, a few of which have been assigned to other genera, known from partial skulls and other fragmentary material:

  • C. clavirostris = (Owen, 1874) Type species.
  • C.sedgwicki (Owen 1859) = Ornithocheirus sedgwicki (Newton 1888)
  • C. araripensis (Wellnhofer 1985) from Brazil. Wingspan in excess of three metres.
  • C. wadleighi (Lee 1993) from Texas.
  • C. spielbergi (Veldmeijer 2003) from Brazil. Possible wingspan six metres.
  • C. piscator (Veldmeijer 2003) = originally Anhanguera piscator

[edit] References

The Pterosaur Database [1]