Brasileodactylus
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| Brasileodactylus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Brasileodactylus araripensis Kellner, 1984 |
Brasileodactylus is the name assigned to the remains of a pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Lower Santana formation of the Aptian (Early Cretaceous) of Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil. The type 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 the Ornithocheiridae. 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.'
[edit] 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.
