Forgotten pterosaurs in Hungarian collections: First description of Rhamphorhynchus and Pterodactylus specimens

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 252, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-180

  Ösi, Attila ^a   Prondvai, Edina ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Late jurassic; Pterodactylus; Rhamphorhynchus muensteri; Skeletal pneumaticity; Solnhofen area

Indexed keywords

BONE; OSTEOLOGY; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ANIMALIA; CARINAE; PTERODACTYLUS; RHAMPHORHYNCHUS; RHAMPHORHYNCHUS MUENSTERI;

EID: 77951441632     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0252-0167     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. BENNETT, S. C. (1993): The ontogeny of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs. - Paleobiology, 19: 92-106.
2. - (1995): A statistical study of Rhamphorhynchus from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany: year-classes of a single large species. - Journal of Paleontology, 69: 569-580.
3. - (1996 a): Year-classes of pterosaurs from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany: taxonomic and systematic implications. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16: 432-444.
4. - (1996b): On the taxonomic status of Cycnorhamphus and Gallodactylus (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea). Journal of Paleontology, 70: 335-338.
5. - (2001): The osteology and functional morphology of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon. - Palaeontographica, (A), 260: 1-153.
6. - (2002): Soft tissue preservation of the cranial crest of the pterosaur Germanodactylus from Solnhofen. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:43-48.
7. - (2003): Morphological evolution of the pectoral girdle of pterosaurs: Myology and function. - In: BUFFETAUT, E. & MAZIN, J.-M. (Eds.): Evolution and Paleobiology of Pterosaurs. - Geological Society Special Publications, 217: 191-215.
8. - (2006): Juvenile specimens of the pterosaur Germanodactylus cristatus with a review of the genus. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26 (4): 872-878.
9. BONAPARTE, C. L. (1838): Synopsis vertebratorum systematis. Amphibiorum. - Nuovi Annali Science Naturali Bologna, 391-397.
10. BONDE, N. & CHRISTIANSEN, P. (2003): The detailed anatomy of Rhamphorhynchus: axial pneumaticity and its implications. - In: BUFFETAUT, E. & MAZIN, J.-M. (Eds.): Evolution and Paleobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society Special Publications, 217: 216-232.
11. EATON, G. F. (1910): Osteology of Pteranodon. - Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs, 2: 1-38.
12. FABRE, J. A. (1976): Un nouveau Pterodactylidae du gisement de Canjuers (Var) Gallodactylus canjuersensis nov. gen., nov. sp. -Annales de Paléontologie, 62: 35-70.
13. GÉCZY, B. (1991): History of the "Pester Exemplar" of Pterodactylus. - In: VITÁLIS, GY. & KECSKEMÉTI, T. (Eds.): Museums and Collections in the history of mineralogy, Geology and Paleontology in Hungary, 159-167; Budapest (Hungarian Geological Society).
14. GOLDFUSS, G. A. (1831): Beiträge zur Kenntnis verschiedener Reptilien der Vorwelt. - Nova Acta Academiae caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, 15: 61-128.
15. HOGG, D. A. (1984): The distribution of Pneumatisation in the skeleton of the adult domestic fowl. - Journal of Anatomy, 138: 617-629.
16. JOUVE, S. (2004): Description of the skull of Ctenochasma (Pterosauria) from the latest Jurassic of eastern France, with a taxonomic revision of European Tithonian Pterodactyloidea. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24: 542-554.
17. KAUP, J. (1834): Versuch einer Eintheilung der Säugethiere in 6 Stämme und der Amphibien in 6 Ordnungen. - Isis von Oken, 1834:311-324.
18. KELLNER, A. W. A. (2003): Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group. . - In: BUFFETAUT, E. & MAZIN, J.-M. (Eds.): Evolution and Paleobiology of Pterosaurs. - Geological Society Special Publications, 217: 105-137.
19. KELLNER, A. W. A. & 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.
20. MATEER, N. J. (1976): A statistical study of the genus Pterodactylus. - Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala, New Series, 6: 97-105.
21. MEYER, H. V. (1847): Homoeosaurus maximiliani und Rhamphorhynchus (Pterodactylus) longicaudus, zwei fossile Reptilien aus dem Kalkschiefer von Solenhofen im Naturalienkabinet seiner kaiserlichen Hoheit des Herzogs Maximilian von Leuchtenberg zu Eichstaedt, 3-11 ; Frankfurt am Main (Schmerber).
22. - (1859): Zur Fauna der Vorwelt. Vierte Abt.: Reptilien aus dem lithographischen Schiefer des Jura in Deutschland und Frankreich. 1. Lieferung, 59-60; Frankfurt am Main.
23. NORELL, M. A. & MAKOVICKY, P. J. (1997): Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton: information from a new specimen. - American Museum Novitates, 3215: 1-28.
24. NOPCSA, F. (1928): The genera of reptiles. - Palaeobiologica, 1:163-188.
25. O'CONNOR, P. M. (2004): Pulmonary pneumaticity in the postcranial skeleton of extant Aves: A case study examining Anseriformes. - Journal of Morphology, 261: 141-161.
26. Osi, A., WEISHAMPEL, D. B. & JIANU, C. M. (2005): An azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary. - Acta Paleontológica Polonica, 50 (4): 777787.
27. PLIENINGER, F. (1901): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flugsaurier. - Palaeontographica, 48: 65-90.
28. SEELEY, H. G. (1870): The Ornithosauria: An elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. - xii + 135 pp.; Cambridge (Deighton, Bell & Co.).
29. TISCHLINGER, H. & FREY, E. (2002): Ein Rhamphorhynchus (Pterosauria, Reptilia) mit ungewöhnlicher Flughauterhaltung aus dem Solnhofener Plattenkalk. Archaeopteryx, 20: 1-20.
30. UNWIN, D. M. (2003): On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs. - In: BUFFETAUT, E. & MAZIN, J.-M. (Eds.): Evolution and Paleobiology of Pterosaurs. - Geological Society Special Publications, 217: 139190.
31. WELLNHOFER, P. (1970): Die Pterodactyloidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands. - Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 141: 133 PP.
32. - (1975 a): Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura- Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands. I. Allgemeine Skelettmorphologie.- Palaeontographica, (A), 148: 1-33.
33. - (1975b): Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands. II. Systematische Beschreibung. - Palaeontographica, (A), 148: 132-186.
34. - (1975 c): Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura- Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands. Palökologie und Stammesgeschichte. - Palaeontographica, (A), 149: 1-30.
35. WELLNHOFER, P. (1978): Pterosauria. - In: Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, 19: 82 pp.; Stuttgart (G. Fischer).
36. - (1991): The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. 192 pp.; New York (Crescent Books).
37. WITMER, L. M., CHATTERJEE, S., FRANCZOSA, J. & ROWE, T. (2003): Neuroanatomy of flying reptiles and implications for flight, posture and behaviour. - Nature, 425: 950-953.