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Middle Jurassic Pterosaurs

The Middle Jurassic period in the United Kingdom shows very few pterosaur remains.  There are a lot of dispersed individual sediments with local names.  The main sediment groups are as follows.

Bathonian
Bajocian
Great Oolite Series
Upper Inferior Oolite
Middle Inferior Oolite
Lower Inferior Oolite
Lower Cornbrash
Upper Deltic Series including Stonesfield Slate
Middle Deltic Series
Lower Deltic Series and Lower Estuarine Series
Dogger

The Stonesfield Slate of Oxfordshire is the main pterosaur bearing sediment in this period within the United Kingdom.  This sediment contains a wide variety of individual bones and fragmentary remains of several types of pterosaurs including Rhamphocephalus, Pterodactylus, Dimorphodon, and other unidentified types.  Several indeterminate fossils are lumped under the name of Rhamphocephalus.

Stonesfield Slate, Oxfordshire, U.K.

Around the world there are also few remains from the Middle Jurassic.

 

 

 

Istiodactylidae

Archaeoisiodactylus linglonglaensis

Rhamphorhynchidae

Angustinaripterus longicephalus

Rhamphocephalidae

Rhamphocephalus bucklandi
Rhamphocephalus depressirostris
Rhamphocephalus prestwichi

Scaphognathidae
 
Fenghuangopterus lii

Monofenestrata
 
Darwinopterus modularis