Upper Jurassic Period
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Plataleorhynchus streptophorodon


Fossil of a pterosaur snout with a terminal spatulate shape.  Teeth are laterally positioned around the snout.  Purbeck Limestone, Dorset, England.  Probably Tethonian, Upper Jurassic in age, but this specimen may be just into the Berriasian of the Lower Cretaceous.

Holotype: NHML R.11957  Rostrum in palatal aspect.

Howse, S.C.B. & Milner A.R. 1995. The pterodactyloids from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset. Bull. Natural History Museum, London, (Geology)  51(1):73-88.