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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 ...
Size comparison of Tropeognathus mesembrinus Restoration of three flying individuals. Tropeognathus is known to have reached wingspans of about 8.26 meters (27.1 ft), as can be inferred from the impressive size of the specimen MN 6594-V, identified as Tropeognathus cf. T. mesembrinus. [1]
Cast of an assigned wrist bone. The first pterosaur remains from Romania were identified by Franz Nopcsa in 1899, and the first remains of Hatzegopteryx were found during a student dig in the late 1970s from the upper part of the Middle Densuş Ciula Formation of Vălioara, northwestern Hațeg Basin, Transylvania, western Romania, which has been dated to the late Maastrichtian stage of the ...
The generic name combines references to Africa and the related genus Tapejara. The specific name honours the Moroccan paleontologist Samir Zouhri. [1] The holotype, FSAC-KK 5004, had been found in the Kem-Kem Beds, dating from the Albian - early Cenomanian. It consists of a snout lacking the front tip and extending to behind to a position below ...
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Caiuajara was assigned to the Tapejaridae, more precisely the Tapejarinae.It shares several traits with the tapejarids, such as a crest running from the front snout to the back of the head; an elongated nasoantorbital fenestra occupying over 40% of total skull length; and a large boss on the front edge of the coracoid.