An early juvenile of Kunpengopterus sinensis (Pterosauria) from the Late Jurassic in China. [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 The Wukongopteridae is a transitional clade between the long- and short-tailed pterosaur groups, and at least ten specimens have been studied without a determined juvenile specimen. Here, we described a small-sized Kunpengopterus sinensis, less than half
Shunxing Jiang +5 more
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Review of taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironments of Azhdarchidae (Pterosauria)
ZooKeys, 2014 The taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironmental context of azhdarchid pterosaurs are reviewed. All purported pteranodontid, tapejarid, and azhdarchid specimens from the Cenomanian Kem Kem beds of Morocco are referred to a single azhdarchid ...
Alexander Averianov
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Development and evolution of the notarium in Pterosauria
Journal of Anatomy, 2020 The notarium is the structure formed by fusion of the dorsal vertebrae which occurred independently in pterosaurs and birds. This ankylosis usually involves two to six elements and in many cases, also includes the last cervical vertebra. Fusion can occur
A. Aires +4 more
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Taxonomy of the Lonchodectidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea)
Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 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 ...
A. O. Averianov
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Comments on the Pteranodontidae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) with the description of two new species [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 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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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).
Zhou X, Pêgas RV, Leal MEC, Bonde N.
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Cretaceous Research, 2019 Pterosaur faunas experienced dramatic turnover between the Early and Late Cretaceous, but fossils documenting this transition are rare. The mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Morocco are one of a handful of localities preserving pterosaurs from this ...
Nizar Ibrahim, Nicholas R Longrich
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Oldest azhdarchid (Pterosauria) record from South America
Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2023 Abstract Azhdarchid pterosaurs in South America were hitherto represented by two taxa coming from Coniacian-Santonian and Maastrichtian beds, of the Mendoza and Río Negro provinces, respectively, in Argentina. Here we report an incomplete pterosaur cervical vertebra from Cenomanian beds exposed at the east shore of Ezequiel Ramos Mexía Reservoir at the
Federico L. Agnolín +3 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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Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England [PDF]
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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