Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

JC Cisneros, NB Raja, AM Ghilardi… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle-and low-income countries
supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued …

Phylogenetic systematics of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea:Azhdarchoidea)

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A pterosaurian connecting link from the Late Jurassic of Germany

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 …

Complex macroevolution of pterosaurs

Y Yu, C Zhang, X Xu - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Pterosaurs, the earliest flying tetrapods, are the subject of some recent quantitative
macroevolutionary analyses from different perspectives. 1–2 Here, we use an integrative …

Hand and foot morphology maps invasion of terrestrial environments by pterosaurs in the mid-Mesozoic

RSH Smyth, BH Breithaupt, RJ Butler, PL Falkingham… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A taxonomic revision of the Sinopterus complex (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, with the new genus Huaxiadraco

RV Pêgas, X Zhou, X Jin, K Wang, W Ma - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Tapejarids are edentulous pterosaurs particularly abundant in the Chinese Jiufotang
Formation, counting with over 10 described specimens and dozens of undescribed ones. A …

[HTML][HTML] A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs

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 ontogenetic growth of Anhangueridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) premaxillary crests as revealed by a crestless Anhanguera specimen

RRC Duque, FL Pinheiro… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Anhangueridae are a clade of toothed pterodactyloid pterosaurs, known from their
characteristic anteriorly expanded premaxillae and conspicuous rostral sagittal premaxillary …

Evidence for a mixed-age group in a pterosaur footprint assemblage from the early Upper Cretaceous of Korea

J Jung, M Huh, DM Unwin, RSH Smyth, KG Hwang… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

The oldest monofenestratan pterosaur from the Queso Rallado locality (Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Toarcian) of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina

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 …