Bakonydraco

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Bakonydraco
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Santonian
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Holotype fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Family: †Tapejaridae
Genus: †Bakonydraco
Ősi, Weishampel & Jianu, 2005
Species:
†B. galaczi
Binomial name
†Bakonydraco galaczi
Ősi, Weishampel & Jianu, 2005

Bakonydraco is a

Veszprém, western Hungary
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Etymology

Bakonydraco was named in 2005 by paleontologists

David Weishampel, and Jianu Coralia. The type species is Bakonydraco galaczi. The genus name refers to the Bakony Mountains and to Latin draco, "dragon". The specific epithet galaczi honors Professor András Galácz, who helped the authors in the Iharkút Research Program, where fossils are since 2000 found in open-pit mining of bauxite
, among them the remains of pterosaurs, the first ever discovered in Hungary.

Description

Restoration

Bakonydraco is based on

symphysis (the front parts, having fused into a single blade-like structure, of the two lower jaws); azhdarchid wing bones and neck vertebrae from the same area may also belong to it.[1]

The lower jaws are toothless and the two halves of the mandibula are frontally fused for about half of its overall length, forming a long, pointed section that is compressed side-to-side and also expanded vertically, giving it a somewhat

Tapejara, it could have been a frugivore.[1]

Classification

Initially, Bakonydraco was assigned to the family

Sinopterinae, Bakonydraco was recovered within the subfamily Sinopterinae in the basalmost position, unlike in the analysis by Andres and colleagues. Their cladogram is shown on the right.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Ösi, Attila; Weishampel, David B.; Jianu, Coralia M. (2005). "First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (4): 777–787. Retrieved July 28, 2009.
  2. S2CID 84617119
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  3. PMID 28950013
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  4. PMID 24768054
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  5. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104487
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