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DOMEYKODACTYLUS
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Genus: Domeykodactylus Martill, Frey, Diaz & Bell, 2000
Etymology: "Cordillera de Domeyko finger"
Type species: D. ceciliae
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Dsungaripteridae
Holotype: Departmento de Ciencias Geológicas at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta 250973 — An incomplete mandible with portions of the left and right rami and symphysis. (Martill, Frey, Diaz & Bell, 2000)
Referred Specimens: Departmento de Ciencias Geológicas at the Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta 250973 — A portion of premaxilla found in the same piece of rock and in very close proximity to the holotype. (Martill, Frey, Diaz & Bell, 2000)
Time: unknown, possibly Late Jurassic or (most likely) Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Quebrada La Carreta
Location: Sierra da Candeleros, Segunda Región de Antofagasta, Chile
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A crested [dsungaripterid] pterosaur in which each mandible bears at least 16 low and narrow protuberant dental alveoli that decrease in size and spacing from caudal to rostral. (Martill, Frey, Diaz & Bell, 2000)
Comments:
References:
Martill D. M., Frey E., Diaz G. C. and Bell C. M. 2000, Reinterpretation of a Chilean Pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungeripteridae in South America. Geological Magazine, January 2000, vol. 137, p. 19-25.