Bogolubovia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Azhdarchidae |
| Genus: | †Bogolubovia Nesov & Yarkov, 1989 |
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| †Ornithostoma orientalis Bogolubov, 1914
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Bogolubovia is a
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the paleontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It was in 1991 assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnhofer (1991) however, retained it in the Pteranodontidae. Bogolubov had initially assigned the specimen, consisting of a single partial large cervical vertebra, as a new species of Ornithostoma, O. orientalis. It was later reclassified as a species of Pteranodon, before being assigned its own genus by Lev Nesov and Alexander Yarkov in 1989.[1][2] The holotype
has probably been lost, but other partial remains have been referred to the genus.
Most modern paleontologists consider it a probable member of the family
pteranodontids.[4]
Bogolubovia would have been a mid-sized pterosaur, with an estimated wingspan of 3–4 metres (9.8–13.1 ft) suggested by the holotype; a later found radius indicates a wingspan of 4.3 metres (14 ft).[5]
See also
References
- ^ Bogolubov, N.N. (1914). "O pozvonk’ pterodaktilya uz’ vyerkhnyem’lovyikh’ otlozhyenii Saratovskoi gubyernii (A propos d'une vertèbre de Pterodactyle des depots cretacés superieurs du gouvernment de Sartoff). [On a pterodactyle vertebra from Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Government of Saratoff]." Annuaire geologique et mineralogique de la Russie, 16(1): 1-7. (Russian text, French resume).
- ^ Nesov, L.A. and Yarkov, A.A. (1989). “New Birds from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of the USSR and Some Remarks on the History of Origin and Evolution of the Class.” Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 197: 78–97.
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- ^ Averianov, A.O., Arkhangelsky, M.S., Pervushov, E.M., and Ivanov, A.V. (2005). "A New Record of an Azhdarchid (Pterosauria: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Volga Region." Paleontological Journal, 39(4): 433-439.
