Serradraco

Serradraco
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
Holotype jaw fragment in multiple views
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Clade: Ornithocheiromorpha
Genus: Serradraco
Rigal et al., 2018
Type species
Pterodactylus sagittirostris
Owen, 1874
Species
  • S. sagittirostris
    (Owen, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Pterodactylus sagittirostris
    Owen, 1874
  • Ornithocheirus sagittirostris
    (Owen, 1874)
  • Lonchodectes sagittirostris
    (Owen, 1874)

Serradraco is a genus of Early Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Valanginian aged Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation in England. Named by Rigal et al. in 2018 with the description of a second specimen, it contains a single species, S. sagittirostris, which was formerly considered a species of Lonchodectes, L. sagittirostris. In 2020, Averianov suggested it did not belong in Lonchodectidae.

The second specimen, BEXHM 2015.18, consists of a small fragment of jaw with three teeth; six complete caudal vertebrae fused together and two fragmentary caudal vertebrae in articulation; a distal left ulna; a right proximal syncarpal; portions of a minimum of three phalanges and two indeterminate elements.