Species: validus (OWEN, 1870) SEELEY, 1875 (nomen vanum)
Etymology: Latin, validum, “strong”.
= Pterodactylus validus OWEN, 1870 (nomen
vanum)
= Cycnorhamphus validus (OWEN, 1870) SEELEY,
1901 (nomen
vanum)
= Ornithocheirus validus (OWEN, 1870) NEWTON,
1888 (nomen
vanum)
= Ornithochirus validus (OWEN, 1870) LYDEKKER,
1888 (sic, nomen vanum)
= Doratorhynchus validum OWEN, 1891 (sic)
Holotype: BMNH 40653
Locality: Probably from the Langton Matravers Quarry, Swanage County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: ‘Middle Purbeck Beds’, Purbeck limestone Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic or Berriasian Stage, Lowermost Neocomian Subepoch, Lower Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: First or second phalanx of digit IV of a right manus of a large pterodactyloid.