Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their ...
Chang-Fu Zhou, Ke-Qin Gao, Hongyu Yi
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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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Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, 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 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 Basal Tapejarine (Pterosauria; Pterodactyloidea; Tapejaridae) from the Crato Formation, Early Cretaceous of Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 A three-dimensional and almost complete pterosaur mandible from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil), Araripe Basin, is described as a new species of a tapejarine tapejarid.
Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas +2 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 W A Kellner
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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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Short note on a Pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western Queensland, Australia [PDF]
Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, 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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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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