Extending the Geographic Range of Pterosaurs in the Araripe Basin: First Record from the Romualdo Formation (Araripe Basin) in Piauí, Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasThe Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil is a key site for Cretaceous pterosaur fossils from Gondwanan deposits. Most discoveries are concentrated in its northern portion, particularly in Ceará state, within the Crato and Romualdo formations. In contrast,
RENAN A.M. BANTIM +5 more
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Were early pterosaurs inept terrestrial locomotors? [PDF]
, 2015 Pterodactyloid pterosaurs are widely interpreted as terrestrially competent, erect-limbed quadrupeds, but the terrestrial capabilities of non-pterodactyloids are largely thought to have been poor.
Witton, Mark P.
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Triassic pterosaur precursors of Brazil: catalog, evolutionary context, and a new hypothesis for phylogenetic relationships of Pterosauromorpha [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasPterosaurs, remarkable for their extensive evolutionary history and role as the first vertebrates to achieve active flight, have long intrigued paleontologists and the public alike. Spanning over 150 million years and vanishing at the end of the Mesozoic
MAURÍCIO S. GARCIA, RODRIGO T. MÜLLER
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A Jurassic pterosaur from Patagonia and the origin of the pterodactyloid neurocranium [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Pterosaurs are an extinct group of highly modified flying reptiles that thrived during the Mesozoic. This group has unique and remarkable skeletal adaptations to powered flight, including pneumatic bones and an elongate digit IV supporting a wing ...
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Pterosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England: a review with new data [PDF]
, 2010 Micropalaeontological processing of vertebrate-bearing horizons within the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, southern England, reveals a rare, but diverse assemblage of pterosaurs.
Martill, D. M., Sweetman, S. C.
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Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with discussion about ontogeny and description of new taxa
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015 Eudimorphodon ranzii was the first Triassic pterosaur to be described and several specimens have been referred to this taxon mainly based on the presence of multicuspid teeth.
Alexander W.A. Kellner
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2019 Tapejaridae is a clade of toothless pterosaurs typically characterized by a large nasoantorbital fenestra and a premaxillary crest that extends from the anterior to the posterior part of the skull.
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First pterosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Poland [PDF]
, 2013 The first records of pterosaurs from the Cretaceous of Poland are reported, on the basis of fragmentary remains from the marine Upper Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Annopol Anticline, central Poland.
Machalski, Marcin, Martill, David M.
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2018 Six stages (OS1-6) were identified by Kellner (2015) to establish the ontogeny of a given pterosaur fossil. These were used to support the erection of several new Triassic taxa including Bergamodactylus wildi, which is based on a single specimen (MPUM ...
FABIO M. DALLA VECCHIA
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Do cladistic and morphometric data capture common patterns of morphological disparity? [PDF]
, 2015 The distinctly non-random diversity of organismal form manifests itself in discrete clusters of taxa that share a common body plan. As a result, analyses of disparity require a scalable comparative framework.
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