Diopecephalus

Diopecephalus
Temporal range: Tithonian
Fossil in Augsburg Naturmuseum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Order:†Pterosauria
Suborder:†Pterodactyloidea
Clade:†Lophocratia
Genus:†Diopecephalus
Seeley, 1871
Species
  • D. kochi (type) (Wagner, 1837 (originally Ornithocephalus)

Diopecephalus was a genus of Pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of the Lithographic Limestone, Bavaria, Germany. The type and only species is D. kochi, although the name has been applied to Pterodactylus longicollum, with longicollum erroneously listed as the type species.[1]

Juvenile type specimen

Like many pterosaurs, it has had a confusing taxonomic history, being given names by various authorities which identify it with four other genera:

  • Pterodactylus longicollum (von Meyer 1854)
  • Pterodactylus vulturinus (Wagner 1857)
  • Pterodactylus longicollis (Wagner 1858)
  • Pterodactylus suevicus (Fraas 1878)
  • Cycnorhamphus fraasii (Seeley 1891)
  • Pterodactylus frassi (Seeley 1901)
  • Gallodactylus longicollum (Fabre 1974)
  • Ornithocephalus longipes (Olshevsky 1978) (Ornithocephalus is an obsolete name for Pterodactylus)
  • Ornithocephalus vulturinus (Olshevsky 1978) (Ornithocephalus is an obsolete name for Pterodactylus)

In 2017, Steven U. Vidovic and David M. Martill resurrected the genus Diopecephalus.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Bennett, S. Christopher (2006). "Juvenile specimens of the pterosaur Germanodactylus cristatus, with a review of the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 872–878. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[872:jsotpg]2.0.co;2.
  2. ↑ Vidovic, Steven U.; Martill, David M. (2017). "The taxonomy and phylogeny of Diopecephalus kochi (Wagner, 1837) and Germanodactylus rhamphastinus (Wagner, 1851)". Geological Society, London, Special Publications: SP455.12. doi:10.1144/SP455.12.
  • von Meyer, C. E. H. 1854, Letter on various fossils. N. Jb. Miner. Geogn. Geol. Petrefakt. pp. 47–58.
  • Wagner, J. A. 1857, Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flugsaurier aus den lithographischen Schiefern in Bayern. Gelehrte Anz. k. bayer. Akad. Wiss. (2), 171–181.
  • Seeley, H. G. 1871, Additional evidence of the structure of the head in ornithosaurs from the Cambridge Upper Greensand; being a supplement to “The Ornithosauria”. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist.(7) 37, 20–36. & pls 2–3.
  • Seeley, H. G. 1891, The ornithosaurian pelvis. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 7, 237–255.


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