Daitingopterus

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"Daitingopterus" (meaning "Daiting Wing") is a nomen nudum, meaning that it is not a valid scientific name. Informally coined in 2004,[1] it is intended as a replacement name for "Germanodactylus" rhamphastinus, named by Wagner in 1851 as a species of Ornithocephalus.[2] It lived in the Late Jurassic of what is now Germany.

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  1. ^ Maisch, M.W.; Matzke, A.T.; and Ge Sun (2004). "A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China". Cretaceous Research 25: 625–634. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2004.06.002. 
  2. ^ Wagner, Johann Andreas (1851). "Beschreibung einer neuen Art von Ornithocephalus, nebst kritischer Vergleichung der in der k. palaeontologischen Sammlung zu München aufgestellten Arten aus dieser Gattung" (in German). Abhandlungen der koniglichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 6: 1–64. 

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