On two pterosaur humeri from the Tendaguru beds (Upper Jurassic, Tanzania)

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 813-818

  Costa, Fabiana R ^a   Kellner, Alexander W A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Africa; Pterosauria; Tanzania; Tendaguru; Upper Jurassic

Indexed keywords

DSUNGARIPTEROIDEA; PTEROSAURIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 70449090066     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: 16782690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652009000400017     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. BENNETT SC. 1993. The ontogeny of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs. Paleobiology 19: 92-106.
2. BENNETT SC. 2001. The osteology and functional morphology of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon. Palaeontographica Abt A 26: 1-112.
3. BENNETT SC. 2003. Morphological evolution of the pectoral girdle of pterosaurs: myology and function. In: BUFFETAUT E and MAZIN J-M (Eds), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. London: Geol Soc Spec Pub, Geological Society, p. 191-215.
4. BUISONJÉ PH. 1980. Santanadactylus brasiliensis nov.gen., nov.sp., a long-necked, large pterosaur from the Aptian of Brasil. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlande Akademie van Wetenschappen, B 83: 145-172.
5. Calvo JO, Porfiri JD, González-Riga B and KellNer AWA. 2007. A new Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem from Gondwana with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur. An Acad Bras Cienc 79: 529-541.
6. Dalla Vecchia FM, ARDUINI P and KELLNER AWA. 2001. The first pterosaur from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Lagerstätten of Lebanon. Cretaceous Res 22: 219-225.
7. GALTON PM. 1980. Avian-like tibiotarsi of pterodactyloids (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of East Africa. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 54: 331-342.
8. HEINRICH WD. 1999. The taphonomy of dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania (East Africa), based on field sketches of the German Tendaguru expedition (1900-1913). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 2: 25-61.
9. JANENSCH W. 1914. Übersicht über die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten, nebst einer kurken Charakterisierung der neu aufgestellten Arten von Sauropoden. Archiv für Biontologie 3: 81-110.
10. KELLNER AWA. 2003. Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group. In: BUFFETAUT E and MAZIN J-M (Eds), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. London: Geol Soc Spec Pub, Geological Society, p. 105-137.
11. KELLNER AWA. 2004. New information on the Tapejaridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) and discussion of the relationships of this clade. Ameghiniana 41: 521-534.
12. KELLNER AWA and MADER BJ. 1997. Archosaur teeth from the Cretaceous of Morocco. J Paleontol 71: 525-527.
13. KELLNER AWA 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 17: 1-135.
14. KELLNER AWA, MARTINS A and FORD TL. 2007. A survey of pterosaurs from Africa with the description of a new specimen from Morocco. In: CARVALHO IS, CAS-SAB RCT, SCHWANKE C, CARVALHO MA, FERNAN-DES ACS, RODRIGUES MAC, CARVALHO MSS, ARAI Mand Oliveira Meq (Eds), Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida. Rio de Janeiro: Interciência, p. 265-275.
15. MADER BJ and KELLNER AWA. 1999. A new anhanguerid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Bol Mus Nac (nova série), Geol 45: 1-11.
16. MAIER G. 1997. Tendaguru. In: CURRIE PJ andPADIAN K (Eds), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. New York: Academic Press, p. 725-726.
17. PADIAN K. 2008. The Early Jurassic pterosaur Dorygnathus banthensis (Theodori, 1830). Spec Pap Palaeontol 80: 1-64.
18. Pereda-Superbiola X, Bardet N, Jouve S, Iaro-Chène M, BOUYA B and AMAGHZAZ M. 2003. A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco. In: BUFFETAUT E and MAZIN JM (Eds), Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. London: Geol Soc Spec Pub, Geological Society, p. 79-90.
19. PRICE LI. 1953. A presença de pterosauria no Cretáceo Superior do estado da Paraíba. Notas Preliminares e Estudos do DGM/DNPM 71: 1-10.
20. RECK H. 1931. Die deutschostafrikanischen Flugsaurier. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie Abt B 7: 321-336.
21. SAYÃO JM and KELLNER AWA. 2001. New data on the pterosaur fauna from Tendaguru (Tanzania), Upper Jurassic, Africa. J Vertebr Paleontol 21 (Suppl): 97A.
22. SHAROV AG. 1971. (New flying reptiles from the Mesozoic of Kazakhstan and Kirgizia). Trudy Academia Nauk SSSR, Palaeontoloitscheki Institut 130: 104-113. (In Russian.)
23. UNWIN DM and HEINRICH WD. 1999. On a pterosaur jaw from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania). Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 2: 121-134.
24. Wang X, Zhou Z, ZHANG F and XU X. 2002. A nearly completely articulated rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with exceptionally well-preserved wing membranes and "hairs" from Inner Mongolia, northeast China. Chinese Sci Bull 47: 226-230.
25. Wang X, Kellner AWA, ZHOU Z and CAMPOS DA. 2005. Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437: 875-879.
26. Wang X, Kellner AWA, ZHOU Z and CAMPOS DA. 2008. Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China. Proc Nat Acad Sci 105(6): 1983-1987.
27. Wang X, Kellner AWA, JIANG S and MENG X. 2009. An unusual long-tailed pterosaur with elongated neck from western Liaoning of China. An Acad Bras Cienc 81: 793-812.
28. WELLNHOFER P. 1975. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands I-II. Palaeontographica A 148: 1-33.
29. WELLNHOFER P and BUFFETAUT E. 1999. Pterosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 73: 133-142.
30. WILD R. 1978. Die Flugsaurier (Reptilia, Pterosauria) aus der Oberen Trias von Cene bei Bergamo, Italien. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 17: 176-256.