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CAMPYLOGNATHOIDES
(cam-py-log-nath-oy-des)
meaning: "Curved jaw"
Campylognathoides
Named By: Strand in 1928
Time Period: Early Jurassic, 182 Ma
Location: Germany. Possibly India depending upon the validity of C.indicus
Size: C. liasicus about 90 centimetre wingspan, C. zitteli about 180 centimetre wingspan
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Many individual specimens
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Rhamphorhynchoidea | Campylognathoididae | Campylognathoidinae |
Also known as: | Pterodactylus liasicus |
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Campylognathoides ("curved jaw", Strand 1928) is a genus of pterosaur, discovered in the Wurttemberg Lias deposits (dated to the early Toarcian age) of Germany; this first specimen consisted however only of wing fragments. Further better preserved specimens were found in the Holzmaden shale: basing on these specimens Felix Plieninger erected a new genus.

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