Brasileodactylus

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Brasileodactylus
Temporal range:
Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Clade: †
Ornithocheiriformes
Clade: †Ornithocheirae
Clade: †Anhangueria
Genus: †Brasileodactylus
Kellner, 1984
Type species
†Brasileodactylus araripensis
Kellner, 1984

Brasileodactylus a genus of

Santana formation of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
.

The genus was named by

Araripe Plateau. The holotype
, MN 4804-V, is the front part of a mandible.

Later remains referred to Brasileodactylus include SMNS 55414, a mandible, and MN 4797–V, the front of a snout and mandible. More complete fossils are BSP 1991 I 27, a fragmentary skeleton, and AMNH 24444, a 429 mm (16.9 in) long skull, with mandible and proximal left wing. The last two specimens have been assigned to a Brasileodactylus sp. indet. by André Jacques Veldmeijer. However, some of the more complete specimens may belong to other pterosaurs, such as Barbosania.[1]

Description

Brasileodactylus was a medium-sized pterosaur with a wingspan of approximately 4 m (13 ft) and a body mass of 10 kg (22 lb).[2] It had a long pointed snout and conical teeth that in the extreme front of the jaws were long, thin and forward pointing. Unlike some other Brazilian pterosaurs it had no crest on the snout or lower jaw but might have had one on the back of the skull.[3]

Classification

Kellner first assigned Brasileodactylus to the

junior synonym
of Brasileodactylus.

Below is a

phylogenetic analysis presented by Andres et al., 2014.[4]

 Pteranodontoidea 

See also

References

  1. S2CID 89178816
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  2. S2CID 249332375
    .
  3. ^ Veldmeijer AJ, Meijer HJM, Signore M (2009). "Description of Pterosaurian (Pterodactyloidea: Anhangueridae, Brasileodactylus) remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil". Deinsea. 13: 9–40.
  4. PMID 24768054
    .

Further reading

  • Kellner, A. W. A. (1984). "Ocorrência de uma mandibula de pterosauria (Brasileodactylus araripensis, nov. gen.; nov. sp.) na Formação Santana, Cretáceo da Chapada do Araripe, Ceará-Brasil." Anais XXXIII Cong. Brasil. de Geol, 578–590. Rio de Janeiro
  • Frey, E. & Martill, D. M. (1994). "A new Pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of Brazil." Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Paläontology, Abhandlungen. 194: 379–412
  • Sayão, J. M. & Kellner, A. W. A. (2000). "Description of a pterosaur rostrum from the Crato Member, Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian) northeastern, Brazil." Boletim do Museu Nacional, 54: 1-8
  • Kellner, A. W. A. and Tomida., Y. (2000). "Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian -Albian), Northeastern Brazil." National Science Museum Monographs No. 17, National Science Museum, Tokyo: 1-135
  • Veldmeijer, A. J. (2003). "Preliminary description of a skull and wing of a Brazilian lower Cretaceous (Santana Formation; Aptian-Albian) pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) in the collection of the AMNH." PalArch, series vertebrate palaeontology: 1-13
  • Veldmeijer, A. J. (2006). "Toothed pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous; Aptian–Albian) of northeastern Brazil." (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht University, 2006). Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht, 1-269
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