Article: The Early Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus from North America
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
37
Part:
4
Publication Date:
March
1995
Page(s):
755
–
763
Author(s):
Yuong-Nam Lee
Abstract
Coloborhynchus wadleighi, a new pterosaur from the Paw Paw Formation (upper Albian), Texas, is closely related to an English species Coloborhynchus clavirostris. A dentulous partial snout shows unique tooth arrangement and a dorsal medial crest on the anterior portion of the premaxilla. This is the first tooth-bearing pterodactyloid pterosaur known from North America. The genus Coloborhynchus is assigned to the family Ornithocheiridae.