A possible azhdarchid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Early Cretaceous,Aptian) of northeast Brazil |
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| Authors: | Martill David M Frey Eberhard |
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| Institution: | (1) Palaeobiology Research Group, School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, United Kingdom;(2) Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Erbprinzenstraße 13, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The partially articulated, distal portion of a left wing finger of a pterosaur from the Crato Formation of northeast Brazil has a T-shaped cross-section to the second and third phalanges. This cross-sectional shape is one of several characters diagnostic of the pterodactyloid pterosaur family Azhdarchidae (Unwin & Lu 1997). Until now, this family of pterosaurs was known exclusively from the Late Cretaceous. The specimen described here may be the first recorded azhdarchid from the southern hemisphere and the earliest recorded member of the family. |
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| Keywords: | Azhdarchidae Brazil Lower Cretaceous Pterosauria |
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