New toothed flying reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil

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	New toothed flying reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil
	Wang, Xiaolin; Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Jiang, Shunxing; Cheng, Xin; wangxiaolin@ivpp.ac.cn; alexander.kellner@gmail.com
	2012
发表期刊	NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN
ISSN	0028-1042
卷号	99 期号:4 页码:249—257
摘要	Despite the great increase in pterosaur diversity in the last decades, particularly due to discoveries made in western Liaoning (China), very little is known regarding pterosaur biogeography. Here, we present the description of a new pterosaur from the Jiufotang Formation that adds significantly to our knowledge of pterosaur distribution and enhances the diversity of cranial anatomy found in those volant creatures. Guidraco venator gen. et sp. nov. has an unusual upward-directed frontal crest and large rostral teeth, some of which surpass the margins of the skull and lower jaw when occluded. The new species is closely related to a rare taxon from the Brazilian Crato Formation, posing an interesting paleobiogeographic problem and supporting the hypothesis that at least some early Cretaceous pterosaur clades, such as the Tapejaridae and the Anhangueridae, might have originated in Asia. The association of the new specimen with coprolites and the cranial morphology suggest that G. venator preyed on fish.
关键词	Long-tailed Pterosaur Pterodactyloid Pterosaur Azhdarchoid Pterosaur Northeastern China Liaoning Province Yixian Formation Western Age Tapejaridae Dinosaurs
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4309
专题	古低等脊椎动物研究室
通讯作者	wangxiaolin@ivpp.ac.cn; alexander.kellner@gmail.com
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaolin,Kellner, Alexander W. A.,Jiang, Shunxing,et al. New toothed flying reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil[J]. NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN,2012,99(4):249—257.
APA	Wang, Xiaolin,Kellner, Alexander W. A.,Jiang, Shunxing,Cheng, Xin,wangxiaolin@ivpp.ac.cn,&alexander.kellner@gmail.com.(2012).New toothed flying reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil.NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN,99(4),249—257.
MLA	Wang, Xiaolin,et al."New toothed flying reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil".NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 99.4(2012):249—257.