Talk:Ornithocheirus
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Most of this article seems to be written with information from Walking With Dinosaurs (particularly to with it's size). It also fails to mention the "junk basket" nature of this taxon.
It is possible I'm just out of date on these matters. However, if no one speaks up, I'm going to delete most of the text. John.Conway 16:32, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Palaeornis", Cimoliornis, Cretornis, Ornithocheirus nomina nuda
Remove Ornithocheirus cliftoni ("Palaeornis"), O. diomedeus (Cimoliornis), O. hlavaci (Cretornis), O. "macrorhinus", and O. "oxyrhinus" from the Ornithocheirus species list because the former three species are nomina dubia and should be relegated to Pterosauria incerate sedis and the latter two species are nomina nuda. Ornithocheirus curtus may turn out to be congeneric with Pterodactylus, as originally named, and O. bunzeli and O. wiendenrothi may be azhdarchids intstead.
- Um... these species are listed as mis-assigned. Only the two valid species listed by Unwin are listed as valid in the taxobox. Dinoguy2 02:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Is Ornithocheirus a dinosaur? 96.229.179.106 (talk) 07:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- No, it's a pterosaur. Oddly, there was no talk page tag. J. Spencer (talk) 14:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ornithocheirus giganteus
See no mention of this species in the article. JMK (talk) 10:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- I used Unwin's work, so it's currently under Lonchodectes. J. Spencer (talk) 15:54, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Contradiction
The page appears to contradict itself... at the beginning it says that there's evidence that this pterosaur may have reached a wingspan of 40 feet, then asserts that WWD's statement that Ornithocheirus was the largest pterosaur was innacurate because Quetzalcoatlus was actually the largest pterosaur. But we know that the 40-foot estimate for Quetzalcoatlus was off, the wingspan was more like 35 feet, so if Ornithocheirus did have a 40-foot wingspan, that would make it larger than a 35-foot Quetzalcoatlus, at least in that dimension.
Isn't that a contradiction? 70.210.251.211 (talk) 18:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
