Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America
A fragmentary specimen of pterosaur originally assigned to the genus Pterodaustro Bonaparte, 1970 is reassessed. The presence of a sagittal dorsal cranial crest on a fragment of nasopreorbital arcade with linear vertical trabeculae and the occurrence of alveolar protuberances on the os dentale indic...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Geological magazine 2000-01, Vol.137 (1), p.19-25 |
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Zusammenfassung: | A fragmentary specimen of pterosaur originally assigned to the genus Pterodaustro
Bonaparte, 1970 is reassessed. The presence of a sagittal dorsal cranial crest on a fragment of nasopreorbital
arcade with linear vertical trabeculae and the occurrence of alveolar protuberances on the os
dentale indicate the new specimen has similarities with crested pterodactyloid pterosaurs of the family
Ctenochasmatidae, and with members of the Dsungaripteridae. The presence of alveolar protuberances
allows us to assign the specimen to the Dsungaripteridae. It forms the basis of a new genus and
species, Domeykodactylus ceciliae. |
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ISSN: | 0016-7568 1469-5081 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0016756800003502 |