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Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the path" [1]) is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Santana Group, dating to about 127 to 112 million years ago). Tapejara crests consisted of a semicircular crest over the snout, and a bony prong which extended back behind the head. It was a small pterosaur, with a ...
Tapejaridae (from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the ways") is a family of azhdarchoid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period.Members are currently known from Brazil, England, Hungary, Morocco, [1] Spain, [2] the United States, [3] and China.
Tapejaroidea was named by paleontologist Alexander Kellner from Brazil in 1996, [2] [3] and in 2003 it was given a phylogenetic definition by Kellner himself as the most recent common ancestor of Dsungaripterus, Tapejara and Quetzalcoatlus, and all their descendants.
T. imperator skull model. Beginning in 2006, several researchers, including Kellner and Campos (who named Tupandactylus), had found that the three species traditionally assigned to the genus Tapejara (T. wellnhofferi, T. imperator, and T. navigans) are in fact distinct both in anatomy and in their relationships to other tapejarid pterosaurs, and thus needed to be given new generic names.
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The generic name combines the names of Europe and the related genus Tapejara, in reference to the fact that Europejara is the first tapejarid found in that continent. The specific name refers to the Olcades, the Celtiberic tribe inhabiting the region of Cuenca, the location of the find, in Antiquity. [1]