Plataleorhynchus
Sign in to savePlataleorhynchus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Tithonian to Berriasian stages) of what is now the Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England.
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Plataleorhynchus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Tithonian to Berriasian stages) of what is now the Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England.
==History and etymology== Plataleorhynchus is based on holotype NHMUK PV R 11957 (earlier BMNH R.11957), an incomplete anterior upper jaw with teeth found in a chalkstone quarry near Langton Matravers. The fossil is present on a plate; its underside is visible. It was previously part of the Corfe Castle Museum and then the Dorset County Museum during the 1950s before the Natural History Museum purchased the specimen in 1958. It was undescribed prior to 1995.
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