Upper Jurassic Period
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Comodactylus ostromi

 

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A single, complete wing metacarpal with typical rhamphorhynchoid shape.  The specimen came from Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA.  Unwin suggested (in Bennett 1993) that Comodactylus was probably a type of Nesodactylus.
Galton, P. M. 1981, A rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America. J. Paleont. 55, 1117–1122. 2 text figures.

Bennett, S. C. 1993, The ontogeny of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs. Paleobiology 19, pp. 92–106.