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NORMANNOGNATHUS
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Genus: Normannognathus Buffetaut, Lepage, J.-J. & Lepage, G., 1998
Etymology: "Normandy jaw"
Type species: N. wellnhoferi
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Dsungaripteroidea incertae sedis
Species: N. wellnhoferi Buffetaut, Lepage, J.-J. & Lepage, G., 1998
Etymology: "for Dr. Peter Wellnhofer"
Holotype: Musée Géologique Cantonal de Lausanne, number 59'583 — Associated upper and lower jaw on a block of clay.
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Upper Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic
Horizon: Argiles d'Ecqueville
Location: Cliffs of Ecqueville, Octeville, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A pterodactyloid pterosaur with five teeth in the premaxilla and at least nine in the maxilla and at least 14 teeth in the dentary. The teeth are not markedly enlongate and extend to the tip of the jaws. A tall dorsally situated sagittal crest with a concave anterior edge formed by the premaxillae and being anterior to the nasopreorbital fenestra, is present. (Buffetaut, Lepage, J.-J. & Lepage, G., 1998)
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