Tapejara

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Tapejara
Reconstructed life picture of T. wellnhoferi

Reconstructed life picture of T. wellnhoferi

Temporal occurrence
Lower Cretaceous
110 million years
Locations
Systematics
Ornithodira
Flugsaurier (Pterosauria)
Short-tailed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea)
Azhdarchoidea
Tapejaridae
Genre : Tapejara
Scientific name
Tapejara
Waiter , 1989

Tapejara is a genus of pterosaurs whose fossil remains were found in the Santana Formation in Brazil . They lived in the Lower Cretaceous about 110 million years ago. All three known species had a bird-like short jaw and a distinct bone crest on the skull. The largest species T. imperator had a wingspan of six meters.

species

  • T. wellnhoferi Campos & Kellner, 1989 . The only known fossil of this type is a 25 centimeter long skull.

Tupandactylus, however, includes:

  • Tapejara imperator Campos & Kellner, 1997 . The only known skeleton of this type, the skull of which is equipped with a very high bone crest, is now owned by two museums. The skull is in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil and the rest in the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe under the number MCT 1622-R.
  • Tapejara navigans Frey, Martill & Buchy, 2003

literature

  • Alexander WA Kellner, Diogenes A. Campos: Preliminary description of an unusual pterosaur skull of the Lower Cretaceous from the Araripe Basin. In: Diogenes A. Campos, Maria SS Viana, Paulo M. Brito, Gerhard Beurlen (eds.): Atas do I Simpósio sobre a Bacia do Araripe e Bacias Interiores do Nordeste, Crato, 14–16 de Junho de 1990. sn, sl 1990, pp. 401-405.
  • Peter Wellnhofer , Alexander WA Kellner: The skull of Tapejara wellnhoferi KELLNER (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation of the Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil. In: Communications from the Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Historical Geology. Vol. 31, 1991, ISSN  0077-2070 , pp. 89-106, digitized .

Web links

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