Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-r5fsc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-22T04:29:09.209Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A pteranodontid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Peru, with comments on the relationships of Cretaceous pterosaurs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

S. Christopher Bennett
S. Christopher Bennett*
Affiliation:
Department of Systematics and Ecology and Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The first occurrence of a pterosaur fossil from the Early Cretaceous of Peru is reported. The specimen consists of a nearly complete right humerus of a pteranodontid pterosaur preserved in three dimensions, presumably in a concretion. The Pteranodontidae is rediagnosed, and included genera and materials are listed. The Nyctosauridae and Dsungaripteridae are also diagnosed on the basis of postcranial characters, and the relationships of those three taxa plus the Azhdarchidae are discussed. The species Santanadactylus spixi Wellnhofer (1985) is reassigned to the Dsungaripteridae.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 63 , Issue 5 , September 1989 , pp. 669 - 677
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bakhurina, N. N. 1982. A pterodactyl from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal, 1982:105–109. [Translated from: Pterodaktil'iz nizhnego mela Mongolii. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal (Akademiya Nauk SSSR), 1982:104–108.]Google Scholar
Benavides-Cáceres, V. E. 1956. Cretaceous System in Northern Peru. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 108:355–493.Google Scholar
Bogolubow, N. N. 1914. A propos d'une vertèbre de Ptérodactyle des Dépôts crétacés supérieurs de gouvernement de Saratoff. Ezhegodnik po geologii i mineralogii Rossii (Annuaire géologique et minéralogique de la Russie), 16:1–7. [In Russian.]Google Scholar
Bramwell, C. D., and Whitfield, G. R. 1974. Biomechanics of Pteranodon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, B, 267:503–581.Google Scholar
Brown, G. W. 1986. Reassessment of Nyctosaurus: new wings for an old pterosaur. Proceedings, Nebraska Academy of Science, 1986:47.Google Scholar
de Buisonjé, P. H. 1980. Santanadactylus brasiliensis nov. gen., nov. sp., a long-necked, large pterosaurier from the Aptian of Brasil. Proceedings, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, (B), 83:145–172.Google Scholar
Campos, D. A., and Kellner, A. W. A. 1985. Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 57:453–466.Google Scholar
Eaton, G. F. 1910. Osteology of Pteranodon. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2:1–38.Google Scholar
Estes, R. 1964. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 49:1–180.Google Scholar
Gilmore, C. W. 1928. A new pterosaurian reptile from the marine Cretaceous of Oregon. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 73(24):1–5.Google Scholar
Gilmore, C. W. 1935. A new occurrence of the flying reptile, Pteranodon. Science, 82:371.Google Scholar
Hooley, R. W. 1913. On the skeleton of Ornithnodesmus latidens; an ornithosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 69:372–420.Google Scholar
Hooley, R. W. 1914. On the ornithosaurian Ornithocheirus, with a review of the specimens from the Cambridge Greensand in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 13:529–557.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Howse, S. C. B. 1986. On the cervical vertebrae of the Pterodactyloidea (Reptilia: Archosauria). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 88:307–328.Google Scholar
Lawson, D. A. 1975. Pterosaur from the latest Cretaceous of West Texas: discovery of the largest flying creature. Science, 187:947–948.Google Scholar
Marsh, O. C. 1876. Notice of a new sub-order of Pterosauria. American Journal of Science, Series 3, 11:507–509.Google Scholar
Monteillet, J., Lappartient, J. R., and Taquet, P. 1982. Un Ptérosaurien géant dans le Crétacé superieur de Paki (Sénégal). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Series II, 295:409–414.Google Scholar
Nesov, L. A. 1984. Upper Cretaceous pterosaurs and birds from central Asia. Paleontological Journal, 1984:38–49. [Translated from: Pterozavry i ptitsy pozdnego mela Sredney Azii. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal (Akademiya Nauk SSSR), 1984:47–57.]Google Scholar
Owen, R. 1859. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations. Supplement No. I, Pterosauria (Pterodactylus). Palaeontographical Society Monograph, 11:1–19.Google Scholar
Owen, R. 1861. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations. Supplement No. III, Pterosauria (Pterodactylus) and Sauropterygia (Polyptychodon). Palaeontographical Society Monograph, 12:1–25.Google Scholar
Padian, K. 1984. A large pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 4:516–524.Google Scholar
Padian, K. 1986. A taxonomic note on two pterodactyloid families. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 6:289.Google Scholar
Price, L. I. 1953. A presenca de Pterosauria no Cretáceo superior do Estada da Paraíba. Notas Preliminares e Estudos, Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia, Brasil, 71:1–10.Google Scholar
Seeley, H. G. 1870. The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles. Cambridge, 135 p.Google Scholar
Swofford, D. L. 1985. PAUP: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony, Version 2.4. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois.Google Scholar
Unwin, D. M. 1988. New pterosaurs from Brazil. Nature, 332:398–399.Google Scholar
Wellnhofer, P. 1978. Pterosauria. Handbuch der Palaeoherpetologie, Teil 19. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 82 p.Google Scholar
Wellnhofer, P. 1985. Neue Pterosaurier aus der Santana-Formation (Apt) der Chapada do Araripe, Brasilien. Palaeontographica, A187:105–182.Google Scholar
Williston, S. W. 1903. On the osteology of Nyctosaurus (Nyctodactylus), with notes on American pterosaurs. Field Columbian Museum Publications, Geological Series, 2:125–163.Google Scholar
Wilson, J. J. 1963. Cretaceous stratigraphy of central Andes of Peru. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 47:1–34.Google Scholar
Young, C. C. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 8:221–255.Google Scholar
Young, C. C. 1973. [Orho pterosaurs]. Special Publication of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica, No. 11:18–34. [In Chinese.]Google Scholar