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Pterodactylus Cuvier, 1809
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Pterodactylus Cuvier, 1809
- State province: England
- Scientific name authorship: Cuvier, 1809
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Pterosauria
- Locality: Stonesfield
- Latest period or highest system: Jurassic
- Latest era or highest erathem: Mesozoic
- Latest epoch or Highest series: Middle Jurassic
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Latest age or Highest age: Bathonian
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identification Qualifier: Unlikely to be Pterodactylus sensu lato.
- Higher geography: Europe; British Isles; England; Oxfordshire; Stonesfield
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Pterosauria; Pterodactylidae
- Group: Great Oolite Group
- Genus: Pterodactylus
- Formation: Taynton Limestone Formation
- Family: Pterodactylidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Jurassic
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Mesozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Middle Jurassic
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Bathonian
- Country: British Isles
- Continent: Europe
- Class: Reptilia
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