He named this new species " Ornithodesmus latidens " in 1901.
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However, those scientists later changed their opinions, publishing a paper in 2007 that agreed with previous studies and classifying " Ornithodesmus " as a dromaeosaurid.
The more complete pterosaur specimens that had long been associated with the name " Ornithodesmus " were given a new name in 2001, " Istiodactylus ".
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In 1913, Reginald Walter Hooley named a new family to distinguish " Ornithodesmus " from other large pterosaurs known at the time, "'Ornithodesmidae " '.
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More complete pterosaur remains were later assigned to " Ornithodesmus ", until recently a detailed analysis determined that the original specimen in fact came from a small theropod, specifically a dromaeosaur.
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For over a century following this, the pterosaur " O . latidens " was used as the standard example of " Ornithodesmus ", and the fragmentary type specimen was largely ignored.
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""'Ornithodesmus " "'( meaning " bird link " ) is a genus of small, dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in England, dating to about 125 million years ago.
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Although he now considered it a pterosaur, Seeley at the time still considered " Ornithodesmus " close to the origin of birds, and suggested the ( now defunct ) theory that birds and pterosaurs shared a close common ancestry.
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The type species of the genus " Ornithodesmus ", however, was in the 1980s discovered to be based on bones belonging to a dinosaur, which meant a new genus had to be named for " O . latidens ".
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