1843 in paleontology
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Pachyrhamphus |
Preoccupied |
Fitzinger |
preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus Scaphognathus Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of about one meter.-Naming:The first known Scaphognathus specimen was described in 1831 by August Goldfuss who mistook the tailless specimen for a new Pterodactylus species: P. crassirostris. The... |
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