Bogolubovia

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Bogolubovia Fossil range: Late Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Order: Pterosauria Suborder: Pterodactyloidea Family: Azhdarchidae? Genus: Bogolubovia
Binomial name
Bogolubovia orientalis Nessov & Yarkov, 1989
Synonyms
Ornithostoma orientalis Pteranodon orientalis

Bogolubovia is the name assigned to the remains of a pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Upper Cretaceous of Petreowsk, Russia, formerly known as Ornithostoma orientalis. It was named for N. Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the palaeontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It has been assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnofer (1991) however, retains it in the Pteranodontidae.

[edit] References

• Bogolubow, N.N. (1914). "O pozvonk’ pterodaktilya uz’ vyerkhnyem’lovyikh’ otlozhyenii Saratovskoi gubyernii (A propos d'une vertebre de Pterodactyle des depots cretaces superieurs du gouvernment de Sartoff). [On a pterodactyle vertebra from Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Government of Saratoff]." Annuaire geologique et mineralogique de la Russie, 16(1):1-7. (Russian text, French resume).