Literature DB >> 21437387

Short note on a Pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western Queensland, Australia.

Alexander W A Kellner1, Taissa Rodrigues, Fabiana R Costa.   

Abstract

Flying reptiles from Australia are very rare, represented mostly by isolated bones coming from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Toolebuc Formation, which crops out in western Queensland. Among the first pterosaur specimens discovered from this deposit is a mandibular symphysis that some authors thought to have a particular affinity to species found in the Cambridge Greensand (Cenomanian) of England. It was further referred as a member of or closely related to one of the genera Ornithocheirus, Lonchodectes or Anhanguera. Here we redescribe this specimen, showing that it cannot be referred to the aforementioned genera, but represents a new species of Pteranodontoid (sensu Kellner 2003), here named Aussiedraco molnari gen. et sp. nov. It is the second named pterosaur from Australia and confirms that the Toolebuc deposits are so far the most important for our understanding of the flying reptile fauna of this country.

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Year:  2011        PMID: 21437387     DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652011000100018

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  An Acad Bras Cienc        ISSN: 0001-3765            Impact factor:   1.753


  5 in total

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Authors:  Taissa Rodrigues; Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
Journal:  Zookeys       Date:  2013-06-12       Impact factor: 1.546

2.  Taphonomy of Isisfordia duncani specimens from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) portion of the Winton Formation, Isisford, central-west Queensland.

Authors:  Caitlin E Syme; Steven W Salisbury
Journal:  R Soc Open Sci       Date:  2018-03-28       Impact factor: 2.963

3.  Isolated teeth of Anhangueria  (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia.

Authors:  Tom Brougham; Elizabeth T Smith; Phil R Bell
Journal:  PeerJ       Date:  2017-05-03       Impact factor: 2.984

4.  An analysis of pterosaurian biogeography: implications for the evolutionary history and fossil record quality of the first flying vertebrates.

Authors:  Paul Upchurch; Brian Andres; Richard J Butler; Paul M Barrett
Journal:  Hist Biol       Date:  2015-07-28       Impact factor: 2.259

5.  Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian-lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia.

Authors:  Adele H Pentland; Stephen F Poropat; Travis R Tischler; Trish Sloan; Robert A Elliott; Harry A Elliott; Judy A Elliott; David A Elliott
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2019-10-03       Impact factor: 4.379

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