Serradraco
Name:
Serradraco
(Saw dragon).
Phonetic: Sehr-rah-dray-co.
Named By: S. Rigal, D. M. Martill &
S. C. Sweetman - 2017.
Synonyms: Pterodactylus sagittirostris,
Ornithocheirus sagittirostris, Lonchodectes sagittirostris.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Lonchodectidae.
Species: S. sagittirostris
(type).
Diet: Piscivore/uncertain.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: England - Tunbridge Wells Sand
Formation.
Time period: Valanginian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial jaws.
Serradraco
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new pterosaur specimen from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand
Formation (Cretaceous, Valanginian) of southern England and a
review of Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874). -
Geological Society, London, Special Publications: SP455.5. -
S. Rigal, D. M. Martill & S. C. Sweetman -
2017.
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