A new pterosaur specimen from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Cretaceous, Valanginian) of southern England and a review of Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874)

Author:

Rigal Stanislas12,Martill David M.1,Sweetman Steven C.1

Affiliation:

1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK

2. Département des Sciences de la Terre, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon cedex 07, France

Abstract

AbstractA specimen of a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation (Early Cretaceous, Valanginian) of Bexhill, East Sussex, southern England is described. It comprises a small fragment of jaw with teeth, a partial vertebral column and associated incomplete wing bones. The juxtaposition of the bones suggests that the specimen was originally more complete and articulated. Its precise phylogenetic relationships are uncertain but it represents an indeterminate lonchodectid with affinities to Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874) which is reviewed here, and may belong in Lonchodraco Rodrigues & Kellner 2013. This specimen is only the third record of pterosaurs from this formation.

Publisher

Geological Society of London

Subject

Geology,Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology

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