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Lonchodectes
Lonchodectes
Era: CretaceousDiet: PiscivorousPeriod: Early Cretaceous
Lonchodectes (meaning "lance biter") is a genus of lonchodectid pterosaur from several formations dating to the Turonian (Late Cretaceous) of England, mostly in the area around Kent. The species belonging to it had been assigned to Ornithocheirus until David Unwin's work of the 1990s and 2000s