Lower Cretaceous Period

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Coloborhynchus piscator

NSM-PV.19892

 

Anhanguera (old devil) piscator (fisherman)
Known from several fragmentary and uncrushed fossil bones, also partial skeletons.  This pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil has an estimated wingspan of over 4m and a skull length of about 50cm.

Specimen - NSM.PV.19892 re-classified as Coloborhynchus piscator in 2003 by Veldmeijer

Kellner, A. W. A. and Tomida., Y. 2000, Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian -Albian), Northeastern Brazil. National Science Museum Monographs No. 17, National Science Museum, Tokyo. p. 1-135.

Veldmeijer,  A. J., 2003. Description of Coloborhynchus spilberg sp. nov. (Pterodactyloidea) from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil. Scripta Geologica 125: 35-139.

Veldmeijer,  A. J., 2003. Preliminary description of a skull and wing of a Brazilian Cretaceous (Santana Formation; Aptian-Albian) pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) in the collection of the AMNH.www.palarch.nl, vertebrate palaeontology 0, 0: 1-13