| Ptachius hhaemus | |
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| Artist's impression of Ptachius hhaemus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Archosauria |
| Genus: | Ptachius Huxley, 1883 |
| Type species | |
| Ptachius hhaemus Huxley, 1883 | |
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Ptachius is a dubious genus of archosaur from Wolverhampton. It may have been a pterosaur or a dinosaur. The type species, Ptachius hhaemus, is known from two teeth.
Discovered from Triassic and Jurassic sediments in Portobello and Walsall in Wolverhampton in 1878 by Thomas Henry Huxley and was named in 1883.
References[]
- T.H.Huxley: Digging up the past: Wolverhampton