Xericeps
Name: Xericeps
(dry catch).
Phonetic: Zeh-re-seps.
Named By: D. M. Martill, D. M. Unwin,
N. Ibrahim & N. Longrich - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Azhdarchoidea.
Species: X. curvirostris
(type).
Diet: Piscivore?/uncertain.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Morocco - Kem Kem Formation.
Time period: Albian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial lower jaw.
Xericeps
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in Africa during the Cretaceous.
Further reading
- A new edentulous pterosaur from the Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of
south eastern Morocco. Cretaceous Research 84:1-12. - D. M.
Martill, D. M. Unwin, N. Ibrahim & N. Longrich
- 2018.
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