REPTILIA (Reptiles) PTEROSAURIA (Flying Reptiles) ORNITHOCHEIRIDAE ()


Pteranodon ingens
— IN-jens


Conservation Status:

Extinct





Etymology:


Diagnosis:


Distribution:

(,   Museum Voucher) (,   Observation) (,   Literature Record) (,   Online Record), (  Fossil)
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  • Occurrence Summary:  
  • 23
    Records 
  • 23
    Museum Vouchers 
  • 0
    Other Observations 
Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Logan (17); Unknown (6);

Natural History:


Remarks:


Bibliography:
1892 Williston, Samuel W. Kansas Pterodactyls. Part I, Plate I. The Kansas University Quarterly 1(1):1-13
1985 Schultze, Hans-Peter, L. Hunt, J. Chorn, and A. M. Neuner. Type and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Part II. Fossil amphibians and reptiles. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications (77):1-66
Also check on several listed names not in KHA as KS taxa.
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