Nesodactylus

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Nesodactylus
Temporal range:
Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Family: Rhamphorhynchidae
Subfamily:
Rhamphorhynchinae
Genus: Nesodactylus
Colbert
, 1969
Type species
Nesodactylus hesperius
Colbert, 1969

Nesodactylus was a

Upper Jurassic Jagua Formation of Pinar del Río, western Cuba
.

Its remains were collected but not prepared by Barnum Brown in 1918, from rocks better known for their fossils of marine life. When seven black chalkstone blocks were prepared from 1966 by Richard Lund by dissolving the substrate in acid, this revealed the remains of a pterosaur.

Ned Colbert described and named the genus in 1969. The type species is Nesodactylus hesperius. The genus name is derived from Greek nesos, "island" and daktylos, "finger", a reference to the island of Cuba and the typical wing finger of pterosaurs. The specific name
means "western", from Greek hesperios.

The genus is based on

metatarsals, and ribs. The specimen was disarticulated but associated and not very compressed; during the preparation from the limestone
with acid, the bones were not completely removed.

Colbert found Nesodactylus to have had longer wings and more robust limbs and longer legs than related

In 1977

elbow and quadrate.[4] At least one recent review suggests it was a rhamphorhynchine,[5] while another does not classify it.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ De la Fuente, M. S., & Iturralde-Vinent, M. (2001). A new pleurodiran turtle from the Jagua Formation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba. Journal Information, 75(4).
  2. Colbert, Edwin H. (1969). "A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba"
    (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2370): 1–26. Retrieved 2007-03-03.
  3. ^ Jensen, James A.; Ostrom, John H. (1977). "A second Jurassic pterosaur from North America". Journal of Paleontology. 51 (4): 867–870.
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