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Lower Jurassic Pterosaurs

The Lower Jurassic period started about 190 million years ago and the United Kingdom stages are all classified as Lias.

Upper Lias
Toarcian

Bridport Sand and Down Cliff Clay (Dorset)
Peak Shale and Alum Shale Series (Yorkshire)
Jet Rock Series and Grey Shales (Yorkshire)
Marlstone Rock Bed

Middle Lias
Upper Pliensbachian (Domerian)

Marlstone Rock Bed
Thorncomb Sands and Down Cliff sands (Dorset)
Starfish Bed, Eype Clay and Three Tiers (Dorset)

Lower Lias
Lower Pliensbachian (Carixian)
Sinemurian

Hettangian

Green Ammonite Beds (Dorset)
Belemnite Marls (Dorset)
Black Marl (Dorset)
Shale-with-Beef (Dorset)
Blue Lias
Upper Watchet Beds

The United Kingdom has a limited number of pterosaur fossils from this timescale.  The most significant being Dimorphodon macronyx from the Lower Lias and Blue Lias of Dorset and Gloucestershire.  There is also an important skull fossil, Perhapsicephalus Purdoni, from the Upper Lias Alum Shale of Yorkshire.  Other Lower Jurassic pterosaur remains are fragmentary.

The Upper Lias in Germany has also yielded significant pterosaur fossils.  India and Arizona, U.S.A. are also sites where Upper Jurassic pterosaur remains have been found.

The position of the continents about 180ma ago

Dimorphodontidae

Dimorphodon macronyx

Rhamphorhynchinae

Dorygnathus banthensis

Dorygnathus cf  banthensis

Dorygnathus mistelgauensis

Scaphognathinae

Parapsicephalus purdoni

Campylognathoides

Campylognathus liassicus

Campylognathus zitteli

Campylognathus indicus

Campylognathus sp.

Uncertain Classification

Areripedactylus dehmi

Rhamphinion jenkinsi

Ichnites

Antipus flexiloquus