Puntanipterus
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| Puntanipterus Fossil range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous |
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| Puntanipterus globosus Bonaparte and Sanchez, 1975 |
Puntanipterus (meaning "Puntano (native of San Luis) wing") was a genus of ?dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous La Cruz Formation of San Luis, Argentina. It is based on PVL 3869, a tibia and fibula; referred to it were a back vertebra and a wing and foot phalanx. The leg bones were described as similar to those of Pterodaustro (from slightly younger rocks), except for having a spherical joint at the ankle and spiny processes on the front and back faces of the tibia at that end.[1] It was considered to be a dsungaripterid by the time Peter Wellnhofer published The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs (several editions in the 1990s).[2]
Glut reports a personal communication from L. Codorniú and Luis Chiappe (2004) that it should be regarded as a junior synonym of Pterodaustro,[3] but it remains to be seen if this will be supported in the future; it was not done in David Unwin's The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time, published in 2006 (he recognized it as a possibly valid species of uncertain relationships).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Bonaparte, J.F., and Sanchez, T.M. (1975). Restos de un pterosaurio Puntanipterus globosus de la formación La Cruz provincia San Luis, Argentina. Actas Primo Congresso Argentino de Paleontologia e Biostratigraphica 2:105-113. [Spanish]
- ^ Wellnhofer, Peter [1991] (1996). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 134. ISBN 0-7607-0154-7.
- ^ Glut, D.F. (2006). Pterodaustro In: Glut, D.F. Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia. 4nd Supplement. McFarland & Company, Inc.:Jefferson, North Carolina, 623-624. ISBN 0-7864-2295-5.
- ^ Unwin, D.M. (2006). The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time. Pi Press:New York, 272-273. ISBN 0-13-146308-X.
[edit] External links
- Puntanipterus in The Pterosaur Database
- Puntanipterus in The Pterosauria
