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PLATALEORHYNCHUS
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Genus: Plataleorhynchus Howse & Milner, 1985
Etymology: "spoonbill snout"
Type species: P. streptophorodon
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Gnathosaurinae
Holotype: BMNH R.11957 — Rostrum in palatal aspect. (Howse & Milner, 1995)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Tithonian, Late Jurassic to Berriasian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Middle Purbeck Beds, Purbeck Limestone Formation
Location: Quarry near Langton Matravers, Purbeck, Dorset, England
Skull length: ~ 400 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Large ctenochasmatid obtaining a skull length of at least 400 mm, if Gnathosaurus-like proportions are assumed. Saptula roughly circular and sharply demarcated from narrow rostrum posterior to it. Spatula bearing 22 teeth with shallow roots not reaching the centre of the spatula. Anterior tip of palatines forming a slender point wedged between the two premaxillaries. Palatal face of spatula ant anterior rostrum partly covered in rugose bone, indicative of the presence of a feratinous pad. No ridge on the midline of the palate. Over 62 (possibly up to 76) teeth present on entire rostrum (Howse & Milner, 1995)
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