1566 - Top Rare Ornithocheirid Pterosaur Tooth - Lower Cretaceous - Elrhaz Fm Crocodile Bones Notes et Mémoires du Service

Notes et Mémoires du Service géologique du Maroc 92:1-372

A massive fine-grained white or lightly tinted variety of gypsum

2 Classifier: A

Olivine in lithic clasts: Fa0

1566 - Top Rare Ornithocheirid Pterosaur Tooth - Lower Cretaceous - Elrhaz Fm Crocodile Bones Notes et Mémoires du ServiceScientific name: Ornithocheirid (Probably Ornithocheirus simus, (Owen, 1861) Pterosaur Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz Fm Age: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 5. 4cm REF.: 1566 DESCRIPTION: Ornithocheirus simus, is only known from fragmentary jaw tips. It bore a distinctive convex "keeled" crest on its snout similar to its relatives. Ornithocheirus had relatively narrow jaw