Bogolubovia
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| Bogolubovia Fossil range: Late Cretaceous |
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B. orientalis (Bogolubov, 1914) (type) |
Bogolubovia is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Petreowsk, Russia. 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. Bogolubov had initially assigned the specimen as a species of Ornithostoma. It was later reclassified as a species of Pteranodon, before being assigned it's own genus by Nessov and Yarkov in 1989.[1][2]
Most modern paleontologists consider it a probable member of the family Azhdarchidae. It would have been a mid-sized member of this family, with an estimated wingspan of 3-4 meters (9.8-13 feet).[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Bogolubov, 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).
- ^ Nessov, L.A. and Yarkov, A.A. (1989). “New Birds from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of the USSR and Some Remarks on the History of Origin and Evolution of the Class.” Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 197: 78–97.
- ^ Averianov, A.O., Arkhangelsky, M.S., Pervushov, E.M., and Ivanov, A.V. (2005). "A New Record of an Azhdarchid (Pterosauria: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Volga Region." Paleontological Journal, 39(4): 433-439.
