Klobiodon
Name: Klobiodon
(little cage tooth).
Phonetic: Klob-e-o-don.
Named By: M. O’Sullivan & D. M.
Martill - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Pterosauia,
Rhamphorhynchidae.
Species: K. rochei (type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Wingspan roughly estimated at two meters.
Known locations: England - Taynton Limestone
Formation.
Time period: Mid Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Klobiodon
is a genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur
that lived in Europe during the
mid Jurassic. Klobiodon was large for the type of
pterosaur it was,
and was probably a hunter of fish.
Further reading
- Pterosauria of the Great Oolite Group (Bathonian, Middle
Jurassic) of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, England. - Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica. - M. O’Sullivan & D. M.
Martill - 2018.
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