Camposipterus, Rodrigues & Kellner, 2013

Rodrigues, Taissa & Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin, 2013, Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England, ZooKeys 308, pp. 1-112 : 25

Camposipterus gen. n.

Etymology.

After the Brazilian paleontologist Diogenes de Almeida Campos, who made valuable contributions to the knowledge of pterosaur diversity in Brazil and was a major influence to us, and pterus, from the Greek pteron, meaning wing.

Type species.

Ornithocheirus nasutus Seeley, 1870.

Included species.

Camposipterus nasutus , Camposipterus(?) sedgwickii and Camposipterus(?) colorhinus .

Recorded temporal range.

Albian.

Recorded stratigraphic range.

Cambridge Greensand, England.

Diagnosis.

Pterodactyloid pterosaurs with the following combination of characters that distinguishes it from other members of the clade: anterior tip of the premaxillae and maxillae round in lateral view; premaxillary crest absent; anterior expansion of the rostrum present; palate curving dorsally; first pair of alveoli located anteriorly.