Genus: Kunpengopterus WANG, KELLNER, JIANG, CHENG, MENG & RODRIGUES,
2010
Etymology: From Kun Peng, an ancient mythological figure from China regarded
as being a very strange flying animal, and Greek, pterus, "wing."
Species: sinensis WANG, KELLNER, JIANG, CHENG, MENG & RODRIGUES,
2010
Etymology: Greek, sino, meaning pertaining to China, where this new species
was discovered.
Holotype: IVPP V16047
Locality: Longlongta, Jianchang County, western Liaoning Province, China.
Horizon: Daohugou bed (Formation) or Tiaojishan Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Jurassic.
Material: Almost complete and well-articulated skeleton.
Note: Emetolite (reguirtate/pellet) associated with the skeleton.
Referred material:
JIANG, WANG, ZHENG, CHENG, WANG, WEI & KELLNER, 2022
STM-19-59: Skull and skeleton.
Note: Emetolite (reguirtate/pellet) associated with the skeleton.
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BENNETT, 2001
Pteranodon longiceps
Locality: Kansas.
Horizon: Niobrara Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Coniacian Stage, Lower Senonian Subepoch, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
AMNH 5098: Fragmentary skull with possible regurgiated bolus of partially digested fish remains found between the mandibular rami (Bennett, 2001)
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FOSTER, HUNT & KIRKLAND, 2022
Locality: Salad Bar Locality (Sa1212), near Blanding, San Juan County, Southeastern Utah.
Horizon: Brush Basin Member, Morrison Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
FHPR 16914: Regurgitalite with the following material; 1) Salamander(?) femur (?); 2) Frog? (squamosal?); 3) Frog? (ilium?); 4) Lissamphibia (frog?) vertebra?; 5) Frog urostyle (?); 6) Frog, femur; 7) Frog ilium (?); 8) Frog? Radioluna; 9) Lissamphibna (frog?), vertebra; 10) Frog? Ilium", and Lissamphibia (frog?); vertebra.
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FREIMUTH, VARRICCHIO, BRANNICK, WEAVER & WILSON MANTILLA, 2021
Locality: Egg Mountain site, Willow Creek Anticline, Teton County, Montana.
Horizon: Two Medicine Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Judithian age, Campanian Stage, Senonian subepoch, Upper Gulf epoch, Late Cretaceous.
Material:
MOR 10913: Regurgitalite/gastric pellet with 16 maxillae, 33 dentaries, 15 indeterminate tooth-bearing fragments, 7 cranial fragments, 2 braincases, 9 long bone shafts (Alphadon halleyi), 1 lizard cranium, and 2 indeterminate lizard teeth.
MOR 10912: Regurgitalite/gastric pellet with 6 maxillae, 1 dentary, 1 ulan and 4 long bone shafts (Alphadon halleyi).
MOR 11750: Regurgitalite/gastric pellet with 3 dentries, 2 maxillae 6 isolated teeth, 5 vertebrae, 2 humeri, 1 ulna, 1 radus, 2 femora, 1 tibia, 2 fibulae and 2 long bone shafts (Filikomys primaevus).
Note: Possibly from Troodon formosus.
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GORDON, ROACH, PARKER & BRIGGS, 2020
Locality: YPM Locality AZ10.34, Peterified Forest National Monument, Apache County, Arizona.
Horizon: Owl Rock Member, Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest Goup.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Norian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material:
PEFO 38010 (YPM VP.061134): Regurgitalite with tooth and osteoderm fragments.
Note: With possible remnants of striated muscle.
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HOLDEN, 2002
Locality: England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age:
Material:
Number: Not given: A collection of belemnites that may have been regurgitated?
Note : From an Ichthyosaur ?
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Genus: Nova? HOLGADO, DALLA VECCHIA, FORTUNY, BERNARDINI & TUNIZ, 2015
Note: The pellet was redescribed and found not to belong to a pterosaur, but a protorosaurian similar to, but diffrent from, Langobardisaurus pandolfii, and may belong to a distinct taxon.
= cf. Prenodactylus buffarini DALLA VECCHIA, MUSCIO & WILD, 1988
Locality: From a cut of the Preone, Valle di Preone road, north of the little church of Madonna Peraries, near the bridge marked by the 552 m sign in the Carta Tecnica Regionale 1”10.000 on the left side of the Rio Seazza valley, Friuli, Udine Province, NE Italy.
Horizon: Dolomia di Forni Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Norian Stage, Upper Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material:
MFSN ns. 1891: Incomplete, mostly disarticulated specimen preserved as a gastric pellet ejected by an unknown predatory fish.
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QVARNSTRÖM, WERNSTRÖM, WAWRZYNIAK, BARBACKA, PACYNA, GORECKI, ZIAJA, JARZNKA, OWOCKI, SULEJ, MARYNOWSKI, PIENKOWSKI, SHLBERG & NIEDZWIEDZKI, 2024
Locality: Cement plant claypit at Krasiejow near Opole, Silesia Province, Southern Poland.
Horizon: Drawno Beds.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle to late Carnian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.
Material:
ZPAL AbIII/3417a, b: Semitransparent coporlite with plant cuticles, tooth-bearing fragment from a temnospondyl skull, a smaller fragment of a tooth-baring fragment of a temnospondyl skull,a vertebrae of a tetrapod, triangular bone with large canals (perhaps from a temnospondyl), small poorly preserved vertebrae, elongated bone with large canals (likely from a temnospondyl), small fish bone, ganoid scale of an actinopterygian fish.
Note: From probable regurgitalite attributed to Polonosuchus.
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REN, MA, WANG & XU, 2024
Locality: Huashigou Locality, Eastern marign of the Sichuan Basin, Northern Chongqing Municapality, China.
Horizon: Yuzhou Biota.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Sinemurian Stage, Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic..
Material:
SSGT L01-HY709: Regurgitalie (Dipnoan tooth plate, ginglymodian remains).
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RINEHART, LUCAS, HECKERT, SPIELMANN & CELESKEY, 2009
Locality: Ghost Ranch Quarry or the Whitaker Quarry, SE 1/4, SE. 1/4, SW 1/4, Section 1, Township 24 North, Range 4 East, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.
Horizon: Rock Point Formation, Chinle Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Apachean, Late Norian Stage, Upper Late Triassic Epoch, Late Late Triassic.
Material:
NMMNH P-44552: Nearly complete postcranial skeleton.
Note: Probable regurgitalite fills part of the oral cavity as well as covering
the posterior part of the skull which consists of many bone fragments,
including an incomplete premaxilla with one tooth, and a maxilla or a jaw
fragment
with two teeth, of a small Coelophysis (i.e. cannibalism).
Note: Has a coprolite (hand and wrists bones and bone fragments of a juvenile
Coelophysis).
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SERAFINI, GORDON, FOFFA, COBIANCHI & GIUSBERTI, 2022
Locality: Cismon Creek near the locality of Ponte Serra, c. 3/5 km north-west of the village of Fonzaso, 7 km east of Feltre, Belluno Province, North-eastern Italy.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Uppermost Kimmeridgian-Lowermost Tithonian, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
MGP-PD 27566: c. 40 bony elements, mostly vertebrae and osteoderms, alongside unidentified fragmtnes.
Note: Found in a regurgitalite.
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cf. Stenopterygius quadrissicus VALLON, 2012/KELLER, 1977
Locality: Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg State, Germany.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lias II (3), Toarcian Stage, Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.
Material:
SMNS 15194: A small ichthyosaur.
Note: Possible regurgitalite.
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WANG, ZHOU, & SULLIVAN, 2016
Locality: Near Dapingfang Town, Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province, China.
Horizon: Jiufotang Formation, Jehol Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Aptian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Upper Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material:
IVPP V22582: Fragmentary skull and skeleton. Note with gastric pellet (with small fish bones).
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