Maaradactylus
Maaradactylus Temporal range:
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Reconstructed skeleton of the species M. spielbergi on display in Naturalis Biodiversity Center | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Anhangueridae |
Subfamily: | †Anhanguerinae |
Genus: | †Maaradactylus Bantim et al., 2014 |
Type species | |
†Maaradactylus kellneri Bantim et al., 2014
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Other species | |
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Synonyms | |
Synonyms of M. spielbergi
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Maaradactylus is a
.Discovery
Maaradactylus is based on the Museu Paleontologico de Santana do Cariri specimen MPSC R 2357, a skull, atlas, and axis discovered in 2010 in the Aptian—Albian-age Romualdo Formation of Sítio São Gonçalo, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, in the Araripe Basin of Brazil.
Maaradactylus was described by Renan Bantim and colleagues in
In 2019, the species
Description
Maaradactylus had one of the largest anhanguerid skulls from the
The formerly known Coloborhynchus spielbergi (alternatively Anhanguera spielbergi), now Maaradactylus spielbergi, had rounded crests at the ends of expanded upper and lower jaws, similar to the related
Classification
A topology recovered by Jacobs et al. in 2019 recovered Maaradactylus within the family
Topology 1: Jacobs et al. (2019).
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Topology 2: Holgado & Pêgas (2020).
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See also
References
- ^ Rodrigues, Taiss; Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2008). "Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus" (PDF). Zitteliana. 28: 219–228.
- ^ PMID 25283914.
- ^ S2CID 134439172.
- ^ Veldmeijer, A.J. (2003). "Description of Coloborhynchus spielbergi sp. nov.(Pterodactyloidea) from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil". Scripta Geologica. 125 (35): e139.
- ^ "Coloborhynchus spielbergi".
- ^ Veldmeijer, A.J., H.J.M. Meijer, and M. Signore (2006). "Coloborhynchus from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Brazil (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae); an update." PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 3(2): 15–29.
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