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Preservational bias controls the fossil record of pterosaurs. [PDF]
Palaeontology, 2016 Dean CD, Mannion PD, Butler RJ.
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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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An anhanguerian pterodactyloid mandible from the lower Valanginian of Northern Germany, and the German record of Cretaceous pterosaurs [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 The record of Cretaceous pterosaur remains from Germany is sparse. The material recovered to date includes the fragmentary holotypes of Targaryendraco wiedenrothi and Ctenochasma roemeri, as well as a few isolated pterodactyloid teeth and some ...
Pascal Abel +3 more
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A new ctenochasmatid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the late Jurassic of Uruguay
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2021 Abstract A new ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Tacuarembo Formation (Late Jurassic of Uruguay), Tacuadactylus luciae gen. et sp. nov. is described, based on a rostrum fragment with spatulated tip and dentary fragments. It closely resembles Gnathosaurus in the orientation of the teeth and the presence of interalveolar concavities.
Matías Soto +4 more
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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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Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2008 A previously undescribed toothless flying reptile from northeastern China, Nemicolopterus crypticus gen. et sp. nov., was discovered in the lacustrine sediments of the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation, western Liaoning, China.
Wang X +3 more
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The ankle joint of Pterodaustro guinazui [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe hindlimb of pterosaurs has been much less studied than the pterosaur wing. However, it is relevant to understand the evolution, phylogeny and ecology of these animals.
ROMAIN BURLOT +3 more
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A pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Lapurr sandstone, West Turkana, Kenya
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011 An isolated pterosaurian caudal cervical (~ postcervical) vertebra was recovered from the Upper Cretaceous Lapurr sandstone ofWest Turkana, northwestern Kenya. The vertebral centrum is short, wide, and dorsoventrally compressed.
Patrick M. O'Connor +2 more
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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2008 We report on two juvenile specimens of Pterodaustro guinazui, a medium-sized, filter-feeding pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) lacustrine deposits of the Lagarcito Formation of central Argentina (Sierra de Las Quijadas, San Luis Province). Both specimens lack the skull, but one is otherwise nearly complete and articulated, and
Codorniú Dominguez, Laura Susana +1 more
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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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