B Andres - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The Azhdarchidae have come to be known as the most diverse clade of Late Cretaceous pterosaurs and the largest flying creatures in existence. Since the erection of the taxon …
F Spindler - Palaeontologia Electronica, 2024 - palaeo-electronica.org
Based on a unique and extraordinarily preserved complete skeleton, the “Painten pro- pterodactyloid” is formally described and named as Propterodactylus frankerlae, gen. nov …
Pterosaurs, the earliest flying tetrapods, are the subject of some recent quantitative macroevolutionary analyses from different perspectives. 1–2 Here, we use an integrative …
Pterosaurs, the first true flying vertebrates, played a crucial role in Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems. However, our understanding of their ability to move around on the ground and …
Tapejarids are edentulous pterosaurs particularly abundant in the Chinese Jiufotang Formation, counting with over 10 described specimens and dozens of undescribed ones. A …
DWE Hone, A Fitch, S Selzer, R Lauer, B Lauer - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
For over a century, there was a major gap in our understanding of the evolution of the flying Mesozoic reptiles, the pterosaurs, with a major morphological gap between the early forms …
The Anhangueridae are a clade of toothed pterodactyloid pterosaurs, known from their characteristic anteriorly expanded premaxillae and conspicuous rostral sagittal premaxillary …
Here we describe a new pterosaur footprint assemblage from the Hwasun Seoyuri tracksite in the Upper Cretaceous Jangdong Formation of the Neungju Basin in Korea. The …
AE Fernandes, D Pol… - Royal Society Open …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As 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 …