Genus: Ardeadactylus BENNETT, 2013
Etymology: From Ardea meaning "heron" and the name of the genus of herons and Greek, dactylus, "finger," a common component of pteroaur names; th ename is intedt to refer to the presumed heron-like (i.e., long necked long-legged piscovore) character of this pterosaur.

Species: longicollum (MEYER, 1854) BENNETT, 2013
Etymology: Latin, longus, “long,” and Latin, collum, “neck.”
= Pterodactylus longicollum MEYER, 1854
= Pterodactylus longicollis (MEYER, 1854) WAGNER, 1858
= Diopecephalus longicollum (MEYER, 1854) SEELEY, 1871
= Gallodactylus longicollum (MEYER, 1854) FABRE, 1974
= Pterodactylus longicollis MEYER, 1858 (sic)

Holotype: Note: Destroyed during WWII (Wellnhofer, 1970) (example 55 of Wellnhofer, 1970)

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

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Skull, and fragmentary skeleton.

Neotype: SMNS 55603 (example 57 of Wellnhofer, 1970)

Locality: Nusplingen, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 1.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Skull and most of skeleton.

Referred material:

 

LYDEKKER 1888

BMNH 37990: Skull and skeleton.

BMNH 37990a: Fore limb and pes.

 

TISCHLINGER & FREY, 2015

Locality: Painten, Bavaria State, Germany.

Horizon: Solnhofen.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Kimmeridgian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Slg. Ba (s. auch ABB. 266, S.130): Nearly complete specimen.

 

= Ardeadactylus cf. longicollum RAUHUT, LOPEZ-ARBARELLO, RÖPER, & ROTHGAENGER, 2017

Locality: Brunn quarry (a small stone pit at the "Kohlstatt locality") between the villages of Brunn and Wischenhofen, Upper Palatinate, Eastern Bavaria State, Germany.

Horizon: Rhytmic Plattenkalk (Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone)

Biostratigraphy: Beckeri-zone, Subeumela subzone.

Age: Late Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

SNSB-BSPG 1993 XVIII P 13: Right femur.

 

= Pterodactylus longipes MUNSTER, 1839
= Ornithocephalus longipes (MUNSTER, 1839) WAGNER, 1857
Etymology: Latin, longus, “long,” and Latin, pes, “foot.”

Holotype: Palaont. Museum d. Humboldt-Universitat Berlin. (example 56 of Wellnhofer, 1970)

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

Horizon: Solnhofen, Malm Zeta 2.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Skeleton.

After Meyer, 1839

= Pterodactylus vulturinus WAGNER, 1857
Etymology: Latin, vulturinus, “like a vulture.”
= Ornithocephalus vulturinus (WAGNER, 1857)

Holotype: Verloren (Fruher Muchen) (example 59 of Wellnhofer, 1970).

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

Horizon: Mörnsheimer Limestone, Malm Zeta 3.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Skeleton.

 

= Pterodactylus suevicus FRAAS, 1878 non OKEN, 1825
= Cycnorhamphus fraasii SEELEY, 1901

Neotype: SMNS 5802 (example 58 of Wellnhofer, 1970)

Locality: Nusplingen, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.

Horizon: Nusplinger Formation, Malm Zeta 1.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material: Skull and most of skeleton.

From Seeley, 1901

From Seeley, 1901.

Referred material:

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

Horizon: Solnhofen.

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Phil-Theol. Hochschul Eichstatt: Skeleton. (example 57 of Wellnhofer, 1970).
Note: The above are according to BENNETT, 1993 a junior specimen of Pterodactylus antiquus.