Re: Abyssal's official pterosaur question thread

[Rob Taylor <rjtaylor68@comcast.net>]

I'll take a stab at this one, too, but with the caveat that I have not 
verified some of these citations. Hopefully the pterosaur pros and 
aficianados on the List will set us straight if I muck anything up.

Best,

Rob Taylor
The Theropod Archives
http://home.comcast.net/~theropod-archives/

Lithosteornis and Osteornis
Gervais, F. L. P. 1844. Remarques sur les oïseaux fossiles. Thèse, Fac. 
Sci., Univ. Paris. [Abstract in Bulletin of the Société Philomathique de 
Paris, pp. 67-70 & L'Institut 12:293-294.]

Nesodon
A mammal, yes? Did you mean Nesodactylus, or perhaps there's a usage of the 
name Nesodon of which I'm unaware? If Nesodactylus, it's:
Colbert, E. H. 1969. A Jurassic Pterosaur from Cuba. American Museum 
Novitates 2370:1-26. (Should be freely available online at the AMNH Research 
Library)

Nyctodactylus
I have seen the year 1879 in conjunction with this name, but Nomenclator 
Zoologicus points to the following publication, as does Mike Hanson's 
Pterosaur Species List:
Marsh, O. C. 1881. Note on American pterodactyls. American Journal of 
Science (Series 3) 21:342-343.

Ornithocephalus
von Sömmering, S. T. 1812. Über einen Ornithocephalus. Denkschriften der 
Akademie der Wissenschaften München, mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 
3:89-158.

Ornithopterus
I'm going to defer to the experts on this one, as I think Ornithopterus was 
used as both a subgeneric and a generic name, and I haven't locked down 
references for either usage. Based on the Pterosaur Species List, it looks 
like it was first used as a generic name by von Meyer in 1860.

Pachyrhamphus
Fitzinger, L. J. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Braumüller et Seidel, Wien. 106 
pages. [Pachyrhamphus reference on p. 35]

Palaeornis
It's speculation on my part, but I'm wondering if Palaeornis (usually cited 
as Mantell 1835/Vigors 1825), might appear in Mantell's On the Bones of 
Birds discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex, which I believe 
was published in the Transactions of the Geological Society of London in 
1837, but read on June 10, 1835.

Paranurognathus
See Mike Hanson's note in the Pterosaur Species List. David Peters proposed 
the name in a 2005 issue of Prehistoric Times. Mike lists two 2005 
references, but I'm not sure which one has the name. (Help us out, Mike or 
Dave?)

Pteromimus and Procoelosaurus
Atanassov, M. N. 2002. Two new archosaur reptiles from the Late Triassic of 
Texas. PhD dissertation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 352 pages. 
(Confirmed, as I have a copy)

Ptenodactylus
Seeley, H. G. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and 
Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian 
Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge. 
143 pages./Gray, J. E. 1845. (This book can be freely downloaded from Google 
Books.)

Ptenodracon
Lydekker, R. 1888. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the 
British Museum (Natural History). I. London. pp. 2-42. (This is another 
title that can be found on the Pterosaur Database's list of Archived 
Sources.)

Pteromonodactylus
Teriaev, 1967. This one has been a thorn in my side for a long while. Still 
hunting for a ref.

Pterotherium
Fischer von Waldheim, J. G. 1813. Zoognosia tabulis synopticus illustrata, 
in usum praelectionum Academiae Imperalis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquenis 
edita. 3rd edition, volume 1. 466 pages.

Siroccopteryx
Mader, B. J. and A. W. A. Kellner. 1999. A new Anhanguerid pterosaur from 
the Cretaceous of Morocco. Boletim do Museu Nacional, Nova Série, Geologia 
45:1-11. (Confirmed - I have it.)



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From: "Saint Abyssal" <saint_abyssal@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Abyssal's official pterosaur question thread


> First off, Thanks to Rob Taylor for answering my last question. Secondly, 
> I need some information regarding the authors, years, and/or citations for 
> the descriptions of the following (sometimes invalid) pterosaur genera:
>
> "Lithosteornis"
> Nesodon
> Nyctodactylus (Actually, I think this is Marsh 1880...)
> Ornithocephalus
> Ornithopterus
> Osteornis
> Pachyrhamphus
> Palaeornis
> Paranurognathus
> Procoelosaurus
> Ptenodactylus
> Ptenodracon
> Pteromonodactylus
> Pterotherium
>
> And last but not least...
>
> Siroccopteryx