Upper Jurassic Period

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Pterodactylus suprajurensis

 

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Pterodactylus (flying finger) suprajurensis
Individual remains of a large pterosaur were assigned together to this species.  Purbeckian, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.

Sauvage, H.-E. 1872, Note sur les reptiles fossiles. De la présence du genre ptérodactyle dans le jurassique supérieur de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Bull Soc. géol. Fr. (3) 1, 365–386.

Delair, J. B. 1958, The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset: Part One. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, for 1957, 79, 47-72.

Pseudonym
Rhamphorhynchus suprajurensis (Sauvage, 1873)