Dsungaripteroidea
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Skull of Dsungeripterus weii |
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| Kimmeridgian ( Upper Jurassic ) to Aptian ( Lower Cretaceous ) | ||||||||||||
| 157.3 to 112.9 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Dsungaripteroidea | ||||||||||||
| Young , 1964 |
The Dsungaripteroidea are a group of small to large short-tailed pterosaurs that occurred worldwide in the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous .
features
The early, as yet unspecialized Djungaripteroidea were small to medium-sized and are mainly known for Germanodactylus from the Solnhofen limestone and some other finds from Europe and East Africa.
The later Dsungaripteroidea form a Monophylum , the family Dsungaripteridae. The animals had a beak-like, laterally flattened, pointed jaw that was toothless in front and slightly curved upwards. The teeth in the central jaw area were pointed, strong and suitable for biting hard-shelled prey. The animals probably fed on mussels or other mollusks that they found on the rocks of the seashore. The skull, vertebrae and limb bones were unusually strong for the otherwise dainty pterosaurs. The eponymous genus of the group, the Chinese Dsungaripterus, was also the largest representative and reached a wingspan of three to four meters.
Internal system
- Dsungaripteroidea
swell
- David M. Unwin: The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. PI Press, New York NY 2006, ISBN 0-13-146308-X .
- Peter Wellnhofer : Pterosaurs. Pterosauria (= The new Brehm library. 534, ISSN 0138-1423 ). Ziemsen, Wittenberg Lutherstadt 1980.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jaime A. Headden, Hebert BN Campos: An unusual edentulous pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil. In: Historical Biology. An International Journal of Paleobiology. 2014, doi : 10.1080 / 08912963.2014.904302 .
