On the validity of the genus Amblydectes Hooley 1914 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and the presence of Tropeognathinae in the Cambridge Greensand [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Amblydectes is a problematic genus proposed more than a century ago for several pterosaur specimens from the Cambridge Greensand. Its problematic nature is due to the fragmentary preservation of the referred specimens, limited to several rostral tips. In
BORJA HOLGADO
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A new gnathosaurine (Pterosauria, Archaeopterodactyloidea) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 An incomplete, yet remarkably-sized dentated rostrum and associated partial cervical vertebrae of a pterosaur (ML 2554) were recently discovered from the Late Jurassic (Late Kimmeridgian-Early Tithonian) Lourinhã Formation of Praia do Caniçal, of central
Alexandra E. Fernandes +3 more
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Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Anurognathids are an elusive group of diminutive, potentially arboreal pterosaurs. Even though their monophyly has been well-supported, their intrarelationships have been obscure, and their phylogenetic placement even more.
Xuefang Wei +6 more
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New azhdarchoid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) with an unusual lower jaw from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén Group, Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2017 A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia is described. The material consists of an incomplete edentulous lower jaw that was collected from the upper portion of the Portezuelo Formation (Turonian-Early Coniacian) at the ...
ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, JORGE O. CALVO
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The origin and evolution of air sacs in pterosaurs and their forerunners. [PDF]
J AnatPneumatized pterosauromorph vertebrae and their phylogenetic context. Abstract Although the existence of postcranial pneumaticity and the inferred presence of air sacs connected to the lungs are well established in Pterosauria, the origin of this system in pterosaurs remains unclear. We investigated skeletal pneumaticity in the Triassic pterosauromorph
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A new toothless pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from Southern Brazil with insights into the paleoecology of a Cretaceous desert [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2019 Abstract: The first pterosaur bone bed from Brazil was reported in 2014 at the outskirts of the town Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná State, in the Southern region of the country. Here named 'cemitério dos pterossauros' site, these outcrops were referred to the
ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER +4 more
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A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Santana Group in Northeast Brazil has yielded a remarkable discovery: the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics, named Bakiribu waridza gen. et sp. nov.
R. V. Pêgas +5 more
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A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Anhanguerids are a particular group of pterodactyloid pterosaurs, characterized mainly by their rostral sagittal crests, well laterally expanded jaw tips and enlarged anterior teeth.
Borja Holgado, Rodrigo V. Pêgas
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The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceAs the first group of tetrapods to achieve powered flight, pterosaurs first appeared in the Late Triassic. They proliferated globally, and by the Late Jurassic through the Cretaceous, the majority of these taxa belonged to the clade Monofenestrata (which
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A small azhdarchoid pterosaur from the latest Cretaceous, the age of flying giants. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2016 Pterosaur fossils from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of North America have been reported from the continental interior, but few have been described from the west coast.
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