Nesodactylus (Island finger) hesperius (Western)
Specimen revealed during acid preparation of a limestone block at the American
Museum of Natural History in the late 1960's. The sediment is Oxfordian
in age and the original block was collected in Western Cuba some time after
1900. It contained the axial skeleton and some wing bones, the first
wing phalanx being similar in dimensions to those of Anurognathids.
Locality: 10km north-east of Viňales, Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba,
Jagua Formation.
Holotype: AMNH 2000.
Colbert E. H.,
1969, A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba, American Museum
Novitiates, 2370: 26pp, New York.
Pseudonym
Nesodon hesparius (Jensen & Ostrom 1977)
