Upper Jurassic Period
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Pterodactylus antiquus

Pterodactylus (flying finger) antiquus (ancient)
Details of this species was first published in 1784 by Collini. This was called the pterodactyle by Cuvier in 1809 and the original specimen was collected from the Lower Tithonian, Lithographic Limestone at Eichstatt, Bavaria, Germany. Several specimens are known.

Holotype: Bayerische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany. No. AS.I.739

Collini, C A. 1784, Sur quelques Zoolithes du Cabinet d’Histoire naturelle de S. A. S. E. Palatine & de Bavière, à Mannheim. Acta Theodoro-Palatinae Mannheim 5 Pars Physica, pp. 58–103 (1 plate).

Cuvier, G. 1809, Sur le squelette fossile d’un reptile volant des environs d’Aichstedt, que quelques naturalistes ont pris pour un oiseau, et dont nous formons un genre de sauriens, sous le nom de Petro-Dactyle. Annls Mus. Hist. nat. 13, 424–437 & pl. 31.