Upper Jurassic Period

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Ctenochasma gracile

Ctenochasma (comb jaw) gracile  (fine)
One complete specimen and six partial specimens are known from the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany.  These include the fine skull and the jaw shown below.

Holotype: BSP-AS-Vi-30  Part and counterpart showing a partial skull (Oppel, 1862)

Referred Specimen: BSP-1935-i-24  Almost complete skeleton. (Broili, 1936)

Oppel, A. 1862, Über Fährten im lithographischen Schiefer.  Paläontologische Mitteilungen aus dem Museum des Koenigl. Bayrischen Staates, ed. A. Oppel, vol. 1, pp. 121–125 & pl. 39. Stuttgart: Ebner & Sembek.

Broili, F. 1919, Ctenochasma gracile Oppel. Geognost. Jh.29–30 (1916–1917), 299–309.

Jouve S.; 2004, Description of the skull of a Ctenochasma (Pterosauria) from the Latest Jurassic of Eastern France, with a taxonomic revision of European Tithonian Pterodactyloidea: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 24, n. 3, p. 542-554.