- Brasileodactylus
Taxobox
name = "Brasileodactylus"
status = fossil
fossil_range =Early Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo =Pterosauria
subordo =Pterodactyloidea
familia =Ornithocheiridae
genus = "Brasileodactylus"
binomial = "Brasileodactylus araripensis"
binomial_authority = Kellner, 1984"Brasileodactylus" is the name assigned to the remains of a
pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Lower Santana formation of theAptian (Early Cretaceous ) of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil. Thetype species , "B. araripensis", is named from part of a mandible. Other remains named as "Brasileodactylus" have not been assigned a species. It has been assigned to theOrnithocheiridae . It had long, thin, forward pointing teeth and may have had a short crest, like others of its family.The name means 'pterosaur (literally, " [wing] finger") from Brasil.'
References
* Kellner, A. W. A. (1984). "Ocorrencia de uma mandibula de pterosauria ("Brasileodactylus araripensis", nov. gen.; nov. sp.) na Formacao Santana, Cretaceo da Chapada do Araripe, Ceara-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 Creatceous, 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.External links
[http://www.pterosaur.co.uk The Pterosaur Databse]
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