Genus: Aerodactylus VIDOVIC & MARTILL, 2014
Etymology: Greek, aero, 'wind', and greek, dactylus, 'finger': a commong suffix in pterosaur names. The name derives from the Nintendo Pokemon Aerodactyl, a fantasy creature made up of a combination of different pterosaurian features. IT seemed a pertinent name for a genus which has been synonymous with Pterodactylus for so long due to a combination of features.

Species: scolopaciceps (MEYER, 1850) VIDOVIC & MARTILL, 2014 (Type)
= Pterodactylus scolopaciceps MEYER, 1850

Referred material:

FREY, & MARTILL, 1996, FREY & MARTILL, 1998

Locality: Solnhofen, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Lithographic limestone, Solnhofen.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Private collection: Skull and skeleton showing skin and wing impressions.

 

TISCHLINGER, 1993, FRICKHINGER, 1999

Locality: Near Eichstatt, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Private collection: Skull and skeleton showing partial preservation of soft parts.
Note: The right femur was broken and rehealed.

 

WELLNHOFER, 1987

Locality: Eichstatt, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lower Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Geologisch-Palaontologische Abteilung (NHMW), Nr., 1975/`756: Skull, and skeleton with impressions of the wings.

 

= Pterodactylus meyeri MUENSTER, 1842
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH 42 736

Locality: Kelheim, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Referred material:

MEYER,

Number: Not given: Fragmentary skeleton of a juvenile with skin impressions.

 

 

= Pterodactylus antiquus ABEL, 1925 non SOEMMERING, 1812
Etymology:

Locality: Solnhofen quarries, perhaps at Mornsheim, lithographic shales, of the Altmuhl region of Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

AMNH 1942: Skull, skeleton and impressions of skin and musculature.

 

= Pterodactylus elegans BROILI, 1925 non WAGNER, 1861
Etymology:

Locality: Winterberg, Eichstatt, Bayern (Bavaria) State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Bayer. Staatssammlung Munchen 1924 V 1: Skull, skeleton of a juvenile and it shows hair like structures.