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Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

DAVID M. MARTILL
Affiliation:
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, UK
EBERHARD FREY
Affiliation:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
GUILLERMO CHONG DIAZ
Affiliation:
Departmento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidade Católica del Norte, Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile
C. M. BELL
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Geology, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, Cheltenham GL50 2QF, UK

Abstract

A fragmentary specimen of pterosaur originally assigned to the genus Pterodaustro Bonaparte, 1970 is reassessed. The presence of a sagittal dorsal cranial crest on a fragment of nasopreorbital arcade with linear vertical trabeculae and the occurrence of alveolar protuberances on the os dentale indicate the new specimen has similarities with crested pterodactyloid pterosaurs of the family Ctenochasmatidae, and with members of the Dsungaripteridae. The presence of alveolar protuberances allows us to assign the specimen to the Dsungaripteridae. It forms the basis of a new genus and species, Domeykodactylus ceciliae.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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