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#pterodactyloids

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewSpecies</span></a> of flying reptile reshuffles the timeline of pterosaur evolution <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-12-species-flying-reptile-reshuffles-timeline.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-12-species-</span><span class="invisible">flying-reptile-reshuffles-timeline.html</span></a></p><p>The oldest monofenestratan <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pterosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pterosaur</span></a> from the Queso Rallado locality: Alexandra Fernandes et al. <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241238" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rsos.241238</span></a></p><p>"Whereas most early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pterosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pterosaurs</span></a> still had rather short wings and a long tail, the derived subgroup of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pterodactyloids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pterodactyloids</span></a> had slender, elongate wings and a shortened tail... The transition happened during the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jurassic</span></a>"</p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Solnhofen region <a href="https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/a-new-and-large-ctenochasmatid-pterosaur-from-the-solnhofen-region/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archosaurmusings.wordpress.com</span><span class="invisible">/2023/07/14/a-new-and-large-ctenochasmatid-pterosaur-from-the-solnhofen-region/</span></a></p><p>Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pterosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pterosaur</span></a> from the Late <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Jurassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jurassic</span></a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/current-in-press-articles/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">palaeo-electronica.org/content</span><span class="invisible">/current-in-press-articles/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur</span></a></p><p>"Please welcome <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Petrodactyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petrodactyle</span></a> wellnhoferi. Fully laid out in wingspan it’s just over 2 m so comparable (but a bit larger than) the largest known <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Rhamphorhynchus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rhamphorhynchus</span></a> and larger than any of the other <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pterodactyloids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pterodactyloids</span></a> in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Solnhofen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solnhofen</span></a> beds."</p>
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