Bogolubovia

Taxobox
name = "Bogolubovia"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Pterosauria
subordo = Pterodactyloidea
familia = Azhdarchidae?
genus = "Bogolubovia"
genus_authority = Nessov & Yarkov, 1989
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="B. orientalis" (Bogolubov, 1914) (type)

"Bogolubovia" is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Petreowsk, Russia. It was named for N. Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the palaeontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It has been assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnofer (1991) however, retains it in the Pteranodontidae. Bogolubov had initially assigned the specimen as a species of "Ornithostoma". It was later reclassified as a species of "Pteranodon", before being assigned its own genus by Nessov and Yarkov in 1989.Bogolubov, N.N. (1914). "O pozvonk’ pterodaktilya uz’ vyerkhnyem’lovyikh’ otlozhyenii Saratovskoi gubyernii (A propos d'une vertebre de Pterodactyle des depots cretaces 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).] Nessov, 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.]

Most modern paleontologists consider it a probable member of the family Azhdarchidae. It would have been a mid-sized member of this family, with an estimated wingspan of 3-4 meters (9.8-13 feet).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.]

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