This pterosaur from the Solenhofen Limestone of Southern Germany is very
distinctive. It has a long slim jaw with a spoon shaped end. The
teeth are very fine and numerous, numbering around 130 in the jaw. Early
specimens were mistaken for crocodile remains.
Seeley H G;
1869, Note on the pterodactylus macrurus (Seeley) a new
species from the Purbeck limestone, indicating a caudal vertebrae five inches
long, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2(1869) p.130
Pseudonyms
Crocodilus multidens (Munster 1832)
Gnathosaurus multidens (Walther 1904)
Pterodactylus macrurus (Seeley 1896)
Gnathosaurus macrurus (Howse and Milner 1995)
