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Provedor de dados: | 42
País: | Brazil
Título: | A pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Lapurr sandstone, West Turkana, Kenya
Autores: | O'Connor,Patrick M.; Sertich,Joseph J.W.; Manthi,Fredrick K.
Data: | 2011-03-01
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Pterosauria; Pterodactyloidea; Africa; Kenya; Late Cretaceous.
Resumo: | An isolated pterosaurian caudal cervical (~ postcervical) vertebra was recovered from the Upper Cretaceous Lapurr sandstone ofWest Turkana, northwestern Kenya. The vertebral centrum is short, wide, and dorsoventrally compressed. Although the specimen is lightly built similar to most pterosaurs, it is here referred to Pterodactyloidea and tentatively to the Azhdarchidae in that it lacks pneumatic features on both the centrum and neural arch. This represents one of the few pterosaurs recovered from the entirety of Afro-Arabia, the first pterosaur recovered from the Cretaceous of East Africa, and, significantly, a specimen that was recovered from fluvial deposits rather than the near-shore marine setting typical of most pterosaur discoveries.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652011000100019
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/S0001-37652011000100019
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.83 n.1 2011
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess