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    considered to include only the type species, Ornithocheirus simus. Species have been referred to Ornithocheirus from the mid-Cretaceous period of North America...
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    Tropeognathus material to Ornithocheirus simus, making Tropeognathus mesembrinus a junior synonym, though he had reinstated a Ornithocheirus mesembrinus in 2003...
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    Hooley's 1914 review of Ornithocheirus. Confusingly, this species was also long regarded, incorrectly, as the type species of Ornithocheirus. A variety of postcranial...
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    Richard Owen, rejecting the creation by Harry Govier Seeley of the genus Ornithocheirus, named a species Coloborhynchus clavirostris based on holotype BMNH...
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    In 1990, Rupert Wild described the find as a new species of Ornithocheirus: Ornithocheirus wiedenrothi. The specific name honors Wiedenroth as discoverer...
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    Ptenodactylus had been preoccupied, so he renamed the species into Ornithocheirus nasutus. The specific name means "with a long nose" in Latin. In 2001...
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    name Ptenodactylus had been preoccupied and renamed the species into Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus. The specific name means "sabre snout" in Greek. In...
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    (under the name Ornithocheirus cuvieri in his classification) to a group named Ornithocheirae, which consisted only of the genus Ornithocheirus, whose species...
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    genera: Ornithocheirus, Coloborhynchus and Anhanguera. Unwin also designated Ornithocheirus simus as the type and only species of Ornithocheirus. In 2003...
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    which was originally named by Harry Seeley in 1870 as a species of Ornithocheirus. Its holotype is CAMSM B 54625, a snout. In 2001, this species was moved...
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    informally named "Ptenodactylus microdon". In 1870, he formally named it Ornithocheirus microdon, "small tooth", Hooley (1914) transferred this species to Lonchodectes...
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    been synonymized with Coloborhynchus, Criorhynchus, Lonchodectes, or Ornithocheirus. A 2013 study found A. crassidens and A. eurygnathus to be nomina dubia...
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  • "Ornithocheirus" buenzeli (often mis-spelled O. bunzeli) is a pterosaur species known from parts of a humerus (upper arm bone) and part of a lower jaw...
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    pterosaur systematics by Richard Lydekker, renamed the species into Ornithocheirus sagittirostris. In July 1891, the British Museum (Natural History),...
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    separate generic name called Ornithocheirus, and reassigned P. simus as the type species, which created the combination Ornithocheirus simus. Between the years...
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  • Coniacian-early Santonian Ornithocheirus sp.: Albian cf. Ornithocheirus sp.: Early Barremian Ornithocheirus sp.: Early Cenomanian Ornithocheirus mesembrinus: Aptian-Albian...
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  • episode. The most challenging animal to model was the large pterosaur Ornithocheirus, which had to be able to work in different positions for the purposes...
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    were assigned to that genus. In 1870, Harry Seeley reassigned it to Ornithocheirus, another wastebasket taxon. Its specific name honors Adam Sedgwick....
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  • brachyrhinus: A synonym of Ornithocheirus brachyrhinus (nomen dubium) "Ptenodactylus" capito: A synonym of Ornithocheirus capito "Ptenodactylus" colorhinus:...
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  • type from one that does not. Chresonym Glossary of scientific naming Ornithocheirus – a case history Superseded combination ICN, "Glossary", entry for "synonym"...
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    undoubtedly the largest known pterosaur until the 1857 discovery of larger Ornithocheirus species. List of pterosaur genera Timeline of pterosaur research Martill...
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    well as two other species reassigned from Ornithocheirus, Criorhynchus consisted entirely of former Ornithocheirus species, including O. simus, which was...
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    analysis found most of the ornithocheirids falling into this family, while Ornithocheirus itself was recovered as a basal member of Ornithocheirae. The clagogram...
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  • tentatively referred it to Ornithocheirus, although the holotype NHM UK 2353/2353a does not overlap with the holotype of the Ornithocheirus type species. Wellnhofer...
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    America. It was named by Harry Seeley in 1870 as a family that contains Ornithocheirus and its relatives. The name was emended to Ornithocheiridae, to match...
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  • like Koolasuchus. Pterosaurs got larger as genera like Tapejara and Ornithocheirus evolved. Mammals continued to expand their range: eutriconodonts produced...
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  • ago) Kem Kem Group of Morocco. This pterosaur is closely related to Ornithocheirus, but belongs in the family Anhangueridae. The generic name comes from...
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  • χείρ (kheír). Meaning: hand. Examples: Deinocheirus ("terrible hand"); Ornithocheirus ("bird hand"); Austrocheirus ("southern hand"); Haplocheirus ("simple...
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    named Ornithocheirus simus as the type species of Ornithocheirus. The naming of the different pterosaur species, as well as the genus Ornithocheirus in England...
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    fishes, including smaller individuals of the same species, are known) Ornithocheirus (hypothesized to be piscivorous due to anatomy of its jaws and dentition)...
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