Re: Ornithocheirus

["Christopher Collinson" <Chris_Collinson@monarch.net>]

If any one has a .pdf copy of Unwin's 2001 Cambridge Greensand Ornithocheid
paper, would you please send me a copy?

Thanks,
Christopher Collinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer111@msn.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Ornithocheirus


> Christopher Taylor
>
> > Could anyone please clear up a bit of confusion for me? In Unwin's
recent
> > paper in the Buffetaut and Mazin book of last year, a list of pterosaur
> > species was given. _Ornithocheirus_ was listed with two species, _O.
> simus_
> > and _O. mesembrinus_. I'm guessing that these equal _Criorhynchus simus_
> and
> > _Tropeognathus mesembrinus_, respectively, in Wellnhofer (1991).
> Meanwhile,
> > _Lonchodectes_ was listed with a number of species, which looked (again,
> at
> > a guess) to be species I saw listed under _Ornithocheirus_ in
Wellnhofer.
> So
> > neither of the _Ornithocheirus_ species was previously _Ornithocheirus_,
> > while the previous _Ornithocheirus_ species are no longer
> _Ornithocheirus_.
> >     What is the type species of _Ornithocheirus_, and what is it's
current
> > status?
>
> Contrary to just about any source you'll see, the type species of
> Ornithocheirus is O. simus, which was later made the type species of
> Criorhynchus due to a misunderstanding.  It's an ornithocheirid, of
course,
> a taxon also including Coloborhynchus, Anhanguera, Brasileodactylus,
> Santanadactylus, Araripesaurus and Arthurdactylus.  Most of the "typical"
> Ornithocheirus species turned out to be Lonchodectes, Anhanguera and
> Coloborhynchus.  Coloborhynchus may actually be a senior synonym of
> Anhanguera, and several of the Santana taxa could be synonymous.  See
> http://www.cmnh.org/dinoarch/2003Sep/msg00388.html .
>
> Ornithocheirus Seeley 1869
> O. simus (Owen, 1861) Seeley 1869
> = Pterodactylus simus Owen 1861
> = Pterodactylus "carteri" Seeley 1865
> = Ornithocheirus "carteri" Seeley 1869
> = Ornithocheirus "platyrhinus" Seeley 1869
> = Ornithocheirus carteri Seeley 1870
> = Ornithocheirus platyrhinus Seeley 1870
> = Criorhynchus simus Owen 1874
> = Criorhynchus carteri Hooley 1914
> = Criorhynchus platyrhinus Hooley 1914
>
> Mickey Mortimer
>