Draigwenia

Draigwenia ; Temporal range: Early Cretaceous , Albian Pre? ? O S D C P T J K Pg N
	D. platystomus holotype
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	† Pterosauria
Suborder:	† Pterodactyloidea
Clade :	† Lanceodontia
Genus:	† Draigwenia ; Holgado, 2021
Type species
	† Draigwenia platystomus ; Holgado, 2021 ( Seeley , 1870)
Synonyms
	Ornithocheirus platystomus ; Seeley, 1870 ; Lonchodectes platystomus ; (Seeley, 1870) ; Amblydectes platystomus ; (Seeley, 1870) ;

Draigwenia (meaning "white dragon" from the Welsh ddraig wen , referring to a dragon associated with the Anglo-Saxons ) is an extinct genus of pterosaur known from a jaw fragment found in the Late Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand in the United Kingdom . The fossil was likely reworked from an Early Cretaceous layer that can be dated to the Albian . It currently contains a single species, Draigwenia platystomus . ^[1]

History [ edit ]

The holotype CAMSM B54835 , was described in 1870 by Harry Govier Seeley as the holotype of his species Ornithocheirus platystomus . In 1914 Reginald Walter Hooley moved O . platystomus to Amblydectes . ^[2] It was assigned by David Unwin in 2001 to the genus Lonchodectes , ^[3] and in 2013 was excluded from the Lonchodraconidae . ^[4] In a 2021 review of the genus Amblydectes , Borja Holgado considered platystomus a valid taxon and gave it its own genus, Draigwenia , reinterpreting it as an indeterminate member of Lanceodontia.