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HARPACTOGNATHUS
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Genus: Harpactognathus Carpenter, Unwin, Cloward, Miles & Miles, 2003
Etymology: "snatching jaw"
Type species: H. gentryii
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Breviquartossa incertae sedis
Holotype: NAMAL 101 — An anterior portion of the rostrum. (Carpenter, Unwin, Cloward, Miles & Miles, 2003)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic
Horizon: Upper Salt Wash Member, Morrison Formation
Location: Wyoming, USA
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A thin median crest extending from the tip of the rostrum posteriorly above the external nares; antorbital fenestra bounded anteriorly by shallow triangular antorbital fossa; lateral surface of premaxillary and maxillary scalloped between widely spaced alveoli; ventral profile of dental margin undulating and deeply emarginated below external nares. (Carpenter, Unwin, Cloward, Miles & Miles, 2003)
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References:
Carpenter, K., Unwin, D., Cloward, K., Miles, C., and Miles, C., 2003, A new scaphognathine pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, USA: In: Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, edited by Buffetaut, E., and Mazin, J.-M., Geological Society Special Publication, n. 217, p. 45-54.