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ARTHURDACTYLUS
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Genus: Arthurdactylus Frey & Martill, 1994
Etymology: "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finger"
Type species: A. conandoylei
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Ornithocheiridae
Species: A. conandoylei Frey & Martill, 1994
Synonyms: A. conan-doylei Frey & Martill, 1994
Etymology: "for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
Holotype: SMNK 1132 PAL — Partial postcranial skeleton lacking the cervical vertebrae and sternum. (Frey & Martill, 1994)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Creataceous
Horizon: Nova Olinda Member, Crato Formation
Location: Southern Ceará, Brazil
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 4.6 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis:
Comments: Large pterosaur in which the adjacent sacral ribs are unfused with each other distally, most likely even the centra and the precessus articulares are not fused. Probably 6 unfused sacral vertebrae present. Ischium and pubis unfused distally, leaving a wide oval recessus puboichiadicus. Processus postacetabularis short and pointed. Notarium composed of 3 vertebrae, in which at least the dorsal part of the neural spines are fused. Phalanx four of digit four is curved distally. (Frey & Martill, 1994)