- Tendaguripterus
Taxobox
name = "Tendaguripterus"
status = fossil
fossil_range =Late Jurassic
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Pterosauria
subordo =Pterodactyloidea
superfamilia =Dsungaripteroidea
genus = "Tendaguripterus"
binomial = "Tendaguripterus recki"
binomial_authority = Unwin and Heinrich, 1999"Tendaguripterus" (meaning "
Tendaguru wing ") was agenus ofdsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from theKimmeridgian -Tithonian -ageUpper Jurassic Middle Saurian Beds of Tendaguru,Mtwara Region ,Tanzania . It is based on MB.R.1290, a partialmandible withteeth (the symphyseal region, where the two halves of the lower jaw meet). The teeth in the posterior section of the jaw point backwards. Overall, this would have been a small pterosaur; the skull length is estimated at 20centimeter s (7.9inch es), and thewingspan at around 100 cm (39.4 in). This specimen is the first report of pterosaur cranial material from Tendaguru.cite journal |last=Unwin |first=David M. |authorlink=David M. Unwin |coauthors=and Heinrich, Wolf-Dieter |year=1999 |title=On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Museum Für Naturkunde in Berlin Geowissenschaftliche Reihe |volume=2 |pages=121–134 ] It is regarded as a dsungaripteroid (of uncertain affinities),cite book |last=Glut |first=Donald F. |authorlink=Donald F. Glut |title=Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 4th Supplement |year=2006 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=0-7864-2295-5 |pages=p. 631 |chapter=Tendaguripterus] cite book |last=Unwin |first=David M. |authorlink=David M. Unwin |title=The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time |year=2006 |publisher=Pi Press |location=New York |isbn=ISBN 0-13-146308-X |pages=p. 273] meaning it may have fed oncrab s and othershellfish .cite book |last=Unwin |first=David M. |authorlink=David M. Unwin |title=The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time |year=2006 |pages=84-85 ]References
External links
* [http://www.pterosaur.co.uk/species/UJP/german/Tendaguripterus.htm "Tendaguripterus"] in The Pterosaur Database
* [http://archosauria.org/pterosauria/taxonomy/genera/tendaguripterus.html "Tendaguripterus"] in The Pterosauria
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