Plataleorhynchus Temporal range:
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Comparison of ctenochasmatid jaws; C is Plataleorhynchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Ctenochasmatidae |
Subfamily: | †Gnathosaurinae |
Genus: | †Plataleorhynchus Howse & Milner, 1995 |
Type species | |
†Plataleorhynchus streptophorodon Howse & Milner, 1995
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Plataleorhynchus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Tithonian to Berriasian stages) of what is now the Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England.