Named By: | Richard Owen in 1874 |
Time Period: | Early Cretaceous, 140-136 Ma |
Location: | Brazil - Santana Formation. England - Cambridge Greensand. USA, Texas |
Size: | Largest species up to 7 meter wingspan. Largest skull length up to 75 centimetres long |
Diet: | Piscivore |
Fossil(s): | Several specimens, but usually of fragmentary remains |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Pterosauria | Pterodactyloidea | Ornithocheiridae | |
Also known as: | | Amblydectes | Ptenodactylus | Santanadactylus | Siroccopteryx | Uktenadactylus | |
Coloborhynchus is a genus in the pterosaur family Ornithocheiridae, and is known from the Lower Cretaceous of England (Valanginian age, 140-136 million years ago), and depending on which species are included, possibly the Albian age (113-100.5 million years ago) as well.