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Pterodactylus Cuvier, 1809

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Pterodactylus Cuvier, 1809
  • Verbatim longitude: 001 49 10.645 W
  • Verbatim latitude: 51 55 40.36 N
  • State province: England
  • Scientific name authorship: Cuvier, 1809
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Pterosauria
  • Locality: Huntsmans Quarry
  • 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. Might not even be pterosaur.
  • Higher geography: Europe; United Kingdom; England; Gloucestershire
  • 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: United Kingdom
  • Continent: Europe
  • Class: Reptilia
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