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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Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The pterosaurs first appear in the fossil record in the middle of the Late Triassic. Their earliest representatives are known from Northern Hemisphere localities but, by the end of the Jurassic Period, this clade of flying reptiles achieved a global ...
Matthew G. Baron
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A new early monofenestratan pterosaur from the Mörnsheim Formation of southern Germany [PDF]
PeerJA number of new early monofenestratan pterosaurs have recently been described from the Late Jurassic Mörnsheim Formation of Southern Germany, greatly expanding our knowledge of the diversity and evolution of this group.
David W.E. Hone
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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 giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines [PDF]
PeerJRhamphorhynchus is one of the best-known pterosaurs, with well over 100 specimens being held in public collections. Most of these represent juvenile animals, and the adults known are typically around 1 m in wingspan.
David W.E. Hone, Skye N. McDavid
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A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil and the paleobiogeography of the Tapejaridae [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 The Tapejaridae were an apparently worldwide distributed clade of edentulous pterosaurs, being a major component of several Lower Cretaceous terrestrial faunas.
Gabriela M. Cerqueira +4 more
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A large pterosaur femur from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic of Lusitanian Basin, Portugal [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 The pterosaur fossil record in Portugal is scarce, comprising mainly isolated teeth and rare postcranial material. Here, we describe a well-preserved right proximal femur of a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic Praia da ...
FILIPPO BERTOZZO +6 more
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First record of a Late Jurassic rhamphorhynchine pterosaur from Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 We describe partial remains of a non-pterodactyloid pterosaur from Upper Jurassic levels of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. The material includes a left humerus, a possible dorsal vertebra, and the shaft of a wing phalanx, all preserved in three ...
Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz +5 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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Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola
Diversity, 2022 Here, we describe the first pterosaur remains from Angola, an assemblage of fourteen bones from the Lower Maastrichtian marine deposits of Bentiaba, Namibe Province. One new species is introduced, Epapatelo otyikokolo, gen. et sp.
Alexandra E. Fernandes +6 more
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