Upper Jurassic Period

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Doratorhynchus validus

Represented as a single cervical vertebra from the Purbeck Limestone of Britain.  Jurassic - Cretaceous boarder sediments.  Other partial bones have been assigned to this type, including a wing phalange in the Dorchester Museum, Dorset, England.  The azhdarchid association is tenuous.

Wing phalange at Dorchester Museum

Owen R; 1870, Monograph on the Order Pterosauria, Palaeontographical Society, London

Seeley H G; 1875, On the Ornithosaurian (Doratorhynchus validus) from the Purbeck Limestone of Langton near Swanage, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London, 31:465-468

Lydekker R., 1888, Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). I. London, pp. 2–42.

Pseudonyms
Pterodactylus validus (Owen 1870)
Cycnorhamphus validus (Owen 1870)
Ornithocheirus validus (Newton 1888)(Lydekker 1888)
Doratorhynchus validum (Wood 1891)