An early pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Oxfordian of Normandy (northwestern France)

Abstract

A long and slender wing metacarpal from the Late Oxfordian Sables de Glos of Cordebugle (Calvados, Normandy) clearly belongs to a pterodactyloid pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of at least 2.30 m. This is currently one of the earliest records of a representative of the Pterodactyloidea.