Camposipterus
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Camposipterus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 112 Ma |
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| C. nasutus holotype | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Clade: | †Anhangueria |
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†Camposipterus Rodrigues & Kellner, 2013 |
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†Ornithocheirus nasutus Seeley, 1870 |
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Camposipterus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of England.
In 1869, Harry Govier Seeley, based on a fossil found at Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, named Ptenodactylus nasutus, at the same time disclaiming the name which makes it invalid by modern standards. In 1870, Seeley had realised that the generic name Ptenodactylus had been preoccupied and renamed the species into Ornithocheirus nasutus. The specific name means "with a long nose" in Latin. In 2001 David Unwin made this species a junior subjective synonym of Anhanguera fittoni. However, in 2013 Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner concluded firstly that Pterodactylus fittoni Owen 1859 was not a part of the genus Anhanguera and secondly that Ornithocheirus nasutus was not identical to it regardless. They decided to name a separate genus for the species: Camposipterus. The generic name combines that of the Brazilian paleontologist Diogenes de Almeida Campos with a Latinised Greek πτερόν, pteron, "wing". The resulting new combination name, the combinatio nova, is Camposipterus nasutus, the type species remains Ornithocheirus nasutus.
The holotype, CAMSM B 54556, had been found in a layer of the Cambridge Greensand dating from the Cenomanian but probably containing reworked fossils from the older Albian. It consists of the front part of a snout.
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