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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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
Alexandra E. Fernandes +2 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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Size, not phylogeny, explains the morphology of the endosseous labyrinth in the crown clade Crocodylia. [PDF]
J AnatHere, we present the most complete dataset to date on the endosseous labyrinths of extant crocodylians. Using 3D geometric morphometrics, we show that allometry constitutes a major contributor of the shape variation of the crocodylian endosseous labyrinths and that the development of this structure is likely linked to the braincase conformation, in all
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Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England
ZooKeys, 2013 Over a decade after the last major review of the Cambridge Greensand pterosaurs, their systematics remains one of the most disputed points in pterosaur taxonomy.
Taissa Rodrigues, Alexander Kellner
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First rhamphorhynchine (Pterosauria, Rhamphorhynchidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Gondwana [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz +5 more
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Taxonomy of the Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) [PDF]
, 2020 The pterodactyloid family Lonchodectidae includes three genera, Lonchodectes Hooley, 1914, Lonchodraco Rodrigues et Kellner, 2013, and Ikrandraco Wang et al., 2014, and four species, Lonchodectes compressirostris (Owen, 1851), Lonchodraco giganteus ...
Alexander O. Averianov
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A new wing skeleton of <i>Forfexopterus</i> (Pterosauria: Ctenochasmatidae) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota reveals a developmental variation [PDF]
, 2020 . In the Jehol Biota, the filter-feeding ctenochasmatid pterosaurs flourished with a high biodiversity. Here, we report a new wing skeleton of the ctenochasmatid Forfexopterus from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in Jianchang, western Liaoning ...
Chang‐Fu Zhou, Jiahao Wang, Ziheng Zhu
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Reconstruction of the adductor chamber and predicted bite force in pterodactyloids (Pterosauria)
, 2020 The reconstruction of jaw muscles is critical in establishing potential cranial functions; however, myological studies of extinct groups that have no descendants are difficult to perform and test.
Rodrigo V. Pêgas +2 more
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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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