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So today it's #FossilFriday and please welcome to our latest publication on anhanguerid pterosaur diversity: http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app007512020.html
This paper mainly focus in taxonomy and phylogeny of coloborhynchines and other anhanguerid lineages. Follow the thread if you are more interested!
This paper mainly focus in taxonomy and phylogeny of coloborhynchines and other anhanguerid lineages. Follow the thread if you are more interested!
Coloborhynchus clavirostris was described by R.Owen back to the 19th cent., but throughout the 20th cent. was a certain debate on the validity of this taxon. The finding of a close related taxon in Texas at the 90s finally recovered the genus and also erected a new American sp.
At the 2000s, there was a debate about Coloborhynchus: several previously known spp. were relocated on this genus by some researchers. In a review on Coloborhynchus, @paleotaissa & @KellnerMn established there was no Coloborhynchus out of 
, and give a new genus for the 
sp.
, and give a new genus for the sp.
Last year, in Iberodactylus paper, we recovered the clade Coloborhynchinae for this peculiar flatten-snout anhanguerids. Also last year, @MeganJPalaeo & Co. published the 1st certain finding of a close species to Coloborhynchus from Kem Kem 
(paper here: thttps://bit.ly/3i0fdNv)
(paper here: thttps://bit.ly/3i0fdNv)
This bring us to our work, published in APP, where we reanalysed all coloborhynchine remains 
of the proposed members of the Coloborhynchinae/Coloborhynchus complex with new anatomical comparisons and a novel phylogenetic
analysis: http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app007512020.html #FossilFriday
of the proposed members of the Coloborhynchinae/Coloborhynchus complex with new anatomical comparisons and a novel phylogeneticanalysis: http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app007512020.html #FossilFriday
Our results allowed us to recover and more complex phylogenetic relationships within Coloborhynchinae, including two new genera: Aerodraco & Nicorhynchus #FossilFriday
In addition, we erected a new species from a fragmented but diagnostic specimen from the Isle of Wight . We named it as Uktenadactylus rodriguesae, in honour to @paleotaissa, who recognized the genus Uktenadactylus as different of Coloborhynchus.
. We named it as Uktenadactylus rodriguesae, in honour to @paleotaissa, who recognized the genus Uktenadactylus as different of Coloborhynchus.
In our phyl-analysis, we recovered Siroccopteryx close to Tropeognathus (as @MeganJPalaeo et al.), but also the 
anhanguerids Ferrodraco & Mythunga in a new clade now named Tropeognathinae. Here a detail of Tropeognathus and a life restoration by @metazoastudio #FossilFriday
anhanguerids Ferrodraco & Mythunga in a new clade now named Tropeognathinae. Here a detail of Tropeognathus and a life restoration by @metazoastudio #FossilFriday
Finally, our work focused in several palaeobiogeographic aspects on the different clades within Anhangueridae, trying to shed light on the diversity of this awosome lineage of large toothed pterosaurs. Hope you enjoy it! #FossilFriday
