Kepodactylus
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| Kepodactylus insperatus Harris and Carpenter, 1996 |
Kepodactylus (meaning "garden finger", for Garden Park, Colorado, where it was found) is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, USA. It is based on DMNS 21684, which includes a cervical vertebra, humerus, several finger bones, and a metatarsal belonging to a pterodactyloid. It was similar to Mesadactylus but larger (wingspan around 2.5 m [8.2 ft]), and with additional holes in the vertebrae and humerus.[1] It was regarded as a potentially valid genus in the most recent review of Morrison pterosaurs.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Harris, J.D., and Carpenter, K. (1996). A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Garden Park, Colorado. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(8):473-484.
- ^ King, L.R., Foster, J.R., and Scheetz, R.D. (2006). New pterosaur specimens from the Morrison Formation and a summary of the Late Jurassic pterosaur record of the Rocky Mountain region. In: Foster, J.R., and Lucas, S.G. (eds.). Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36:149-161. ISSN 1524-4156.
[edit] External Links
- Kepodactylus in The Pterosaur Database
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