New insights into the skull of Istiodactylus latidens (Ornithocheiroidea, Pterodactyloidea). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The skull of the Cretaceous pterosaur Istiodactylus latidens, a historically important species best known for its broad muzzle of interlocking, lancet-shaped teeth, is almost completely known from the broken remains of several individuals, but the length
Mark P Witton
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A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The Kem Kem beds in South Eastern Morocco contain a rich early Upper (or possibly late Lower) Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage. Fragmentary remains, predominantly teeth and jaw tips, represent several kinds of pterosaur although only one species, the ...
Nizar Ibrahim +4 more
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A new crested pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: the first European tapejarid (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundThe Tapejaridae is a group of unusual toothless pterosaurs characterized by bizarre cranial crests. From a paleoecological point of view, frugivorous feeding habits have often been suggested for one of its included clades, the Tapejarinae.
Romain Vullo +6 more
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Comments on the Pteranodontidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) With the Description of Two New Species [PDF]
Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, 2010 Considered one of the best known flying reptiles, Pteranodon has been subject to several reviews in the last century. Found exclusively in the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation and Pierre Shale Group 11 species have been attributed to this genus ...
Alexander Kellner
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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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Short note on a Pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western Queensland, Australia [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011 Flying reptiles from Australia are very rare, represented mostly by isolated bones coming from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Toolebuc Formation, which crops out in western Queensland.
Alexander W.A. Kellner +2 more
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Resistance of cervical vertebrae in response to muscular stresses in pterosaurs: implications for foraging habits and skeletal pneumatization [PDF]
PeerJThe necks of pterosaurs were flexible and provided mobility for a relatively long skull. The varied morphologies and levels of pneumatization of their cervical vertebrae reflected differences in biomechanical behavior.
Richard Buchmann, Taissa Rodrigues
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Nurhachius luei, a new istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province (China) and comments on the Istiodactylidae [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Nurhachius luei sp. nov., is here reported based on a complete skull with mandible and some cervical vertebrae from the lower part of the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning (China).
Xuanyu Zhou +3 more
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Isolated teeth of Anhangueria (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The fossil record of Australian pterosaurs is sparse, consisting of only a small number of isolated and fragmentary remains from the Cretaceous of Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria.
Tom Brougham +2 more
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Exploring the complex cranial morphology of Tupandactylus imperator (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae) based on a new specimen [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasTupandactylus imperator, a striking tapejarid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation (Araripe Basin), is renowned for its extraordinary cranial crest, one of the proportionally largest among pterosaurs and, indeed, also among all ...
LUCAS CANEJO +2 more
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