An unusual pterosaur specimen (Pterodactyloidea, ?azhdarchoidea) from the early cretaceous Romualdo formation of Brazil, and the evolution of the pterodactyloid palate. by Felipe L Pinheiro, Cesar L Schultz

“…A new and unusual specimen of a probable azhdarchoid pterosaur is described for the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Romualdo Formation of Brazil. …”
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Anhanguera taxonomy revisited: is our understanding of Santana Group pterosaur diversity biased by poor biological and stratigraphic control? by Felipe L. Pinheiro, Taissa Rodrigues

“…Background Anhanguerids comprise an important clade of pterosaurs, mostly known from dozens of three-dimensionally preserved specimens recovered from the Lower Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (northeastern Brazil). …”
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Pterosaur teeth from the Southern Neuquén Basin (Patagonia, Argentina): New insights on the reconstruction of ornithocheiriform dental anatomy by ALESSIO CIAFFI, FLAVIO BELLARDINI

“…The pterosaur fossil record of Argentina is increasing in recent times, both in the number of localities and their temporal range. …”
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A new pterosaur from the early stage of the Jehol biota in China, with a study on the relative thickness of bone walls by Shunxing Jiang, Junyi Song, Xinjun Zhang, Xin Cheng, Xiaolin Wang

“…Here we report a more complete pterosaur specimen, assigned to the Ctenochasmatidae. …”
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Testing pterosaur ingroup relationships through broader sampling of avemetatarsalian taxa and characters and a range of phylogenetic analysis techniques by Matthew G. Baron

“…The pterosaurs first appear in the fossil record in the middle of the Late Triassic. …”
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A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Lingyuanopterus camposi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China by Yizhi Xu, Shunxing Jiang, Xiaolin Wang

“…This may represent different feeding strategies, and also indicate a similarity between the pterosaur assemblages of northeastern China and Britain during the Early Cretaceous.…”
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Locomoção Terrestre em Pterossauros – Uma Breve Revisão da Literatura by Marcelo Léda de Moraes

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Lower cretaceous avian-dominated, theropod, thyreophoran, pterosaur and turtle track assemblages from the Tugulu Group, Xinjiang, China: ichnotaxonomy and palaeoecology by Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Chengkai Jia, Hendrik Klein, Kecheng Niu, Lijun Zhang, Liqi Qi, Chunyong Chou, Anthony Romilio, Donghao Wang, Yu Zhang, W Scott Persons, Miaoyan Wang

“…The Huangyangquan assemblages have yielded more than 1,500 identified tracks including abundant tracks of avian and non-avian theropods, pterosaurs and turtles and less abundant tracks of stegosaurs. …”
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Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany: the problem of cryptic pterosaur taxa in early ontogeny. by Steven U Vidovic, David M Martill

“…The taxonomy of the Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 from the Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Bavaria, Germany is reviewed. …”
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Seazzadactylus venieri gen. et sp. nov., a new pterosaur (Diapsida: Pterosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of northeastern Italy by Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia

“…S. venieri increases the diversity of Triassic pterosaurs and brings the number of pterosaur genera and species in the Dolomia di Forni Formation to four.…”
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A taxonomic revision of the Sinopterus complex (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, with the new genus Huaxiadraco by Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Xuanyu Zhou, Xingsheng Jin, Kai Wang, Waisum Ma

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Correction: Pterodactylus scolopaciceps Meyer, 1860 (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany: The Problem of Cryptic Pterosaur Taxa in Early Ontogeny.

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New Material of the Pterosaur Gladocephaloideus Lü et al., 2012 from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China, with Comments on Its Systematic Position. by Junchang Lü, Martin Kundrát, Caizhi Shen

“…Gladocephaloideus has a closer relationship to the Chinese Pterofiltrus rather than to other ctenochasmatid pterosaurs. Microstructure of limb bones implies that JPM 2014-004 represents an early juvenile of Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis, and that the type specimen is not a fully grown specimen either. …”
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How do geological sampling biases affect studies of morphological evolution in deep time? A case study of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) disparity. by Butler, R, Brusatte, S, Andres, B, Benson, R

“…Although morphological diversity (disparity) is also frequently used to examine evolutionary radiations, no empirical work has yet addressed how disparity might be affected by uneven fossil record sampling. Here, we use pterosaurs (Mesozoic flying reptiles) as an exemplar group to address this problem. …”

Nurhachius luei, a new istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province (China) and comments on the Istiodactylidae by Xuanyu Zhou, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Maria E.C. Leal, Niels Bonde

“…A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Nurhachius luei sp. nov., is here reported based on a complete skull with mandible and some cervical vertebrae from the lower part of the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning (China). …”
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The largest flying reptile from Gondwana: a new specimen of Tropeognathus cf. T. mesembrinusWellnhofer, 1987 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and other large pterosaurs from the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Brazil by ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER, DIOGENES A. CAMPOS, JULIANA M. SAYÃO, ANTÔNIO A.F. SARAIVA, TAISSA RODRIGUES, GUSTAVO OLIVEIRA, LILIAN A. CRUZ, FABIANA R. COSTA, HELDER P. SILVA, JENNYFER S. FERREIRA

“…A very large pterosaur (MN 6594-V) from the Romualdo Formation (Aptian/Albian), Santana Group, Araripe Basin, is described. …”
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Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria by Ezcurra, MD, Nesbitt, SJ, Bronzati, M, Dalla Vecchia, FM, Agnolin, FL, Benson, RBJ, Egli, FB, Cabreira, SF, Evers, SW, Gentil, AR, Irmis, RB, Martinelli, AG, Novas, FE, da Silva, LR, Smith, ND, Stocker, MR, Turner, AH, Langer, MC

“…This finding substantially shortens the temporal and morphological gap between the oldest pterosaurs and their closest relatives and simultaneously strengthens the evidence that pterosaurs belong to the avian line of archosaurs. …”

THE PRESENCE OF AN ORBITOANTORBITAL FENESTRA: FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE ANUROGNATHID PECULIARITY WITHIN THE PTEROSAURIA by FABIO MARCO DALLA VECCHIA

“…The anurognathids are peculiar pterosaurs characterized by broad skulls with very short rostra and broadly arched jaws. …”
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Isolated teeth of Anhangueria  (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia by Tom Brougham, Elizabeth T. Smith, Phil R. Bell

“…The fossil record of Australian pterosaurs is sparse, consisting of only a small number of isolated and fragmentary remains from the Cretaceous of Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria. …”
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New anatomical information of the wukongopterid Kunpengopterus sinensis Wang et al., 2010 based on a new specimen by Xin Cheng, Shunxing Jiang, Xiaolin Wang, Alexander W.A. Kellner

“…The Wukongopteridae compose a non-pterodactyloid clade of pterosaurs that are the most abundant flying reptiles in the deposits of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota. …”
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