Normannognathus

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Normannognathus
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Superfamily: Dsungaripteroidea
Family: ?Germanodactylidae
Genus: Normannognathus
Buffetaut, J.J. LePage, and G. LePage, 1998
Species
  • N. wellnhoferi Buffetaut et al., 1998 (type

Normannognathus (meaning "Normandy jaw") was a genus of dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Argiles d'Ecqueville of Octeville-sur-Mer, 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

  1. ^ 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.

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