Lonchodraco

Lonchodraco is a genus of lonchodraconid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early and Late Cretaceous of southern England. The genus includes species that were previously assigned to other genera.

==Discovery and naming== thumb|left|upright|Lithograph of the L. giganteus lectotype rostrum, with associated and referred bones In 1846, James Scott Bowerbank named and described some remains found in a chalk pit at Burham near Maidstone in Kent, as a new species of Pterodactylus: Pterodactylus giganteus. The specific name means "the gigantic one" in Latin. The same pit generated remains of Pterodactylus cuvieri. In 1848, Bowerbank published a histological study of the bone structure of P. giganteus.