So today it& #39;s #FossilFriday and please welcome to our latest publication on anhanguerid pterosaur diversity: http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app007512020.html
This">https://www.app.pan.pl/article/i... paper mainly focus in taxonomy and phylogeny of coloborhynchines and other anhanguerid lineages. Follow the thread if you are more interested!
This">https://www.app.pan.pl/article/i... 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
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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
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This bring us to our work, published in APP, where we reanalysed all coloborhynchine remains
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐" title="Europa-Afrika auf dem Globus" aria-label="Emoji: Europa-Afrika auf dem Globus">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">https://www.app.pan.pl/article/i... #FossilFriday
analysis: http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app007512020.html">https://www.app.pan.pl/article/i... #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
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In our phyl-analysis, we recovered Siroccopteryx close to Tropeognathus (as @MeganJPalaeo et al.), but also the
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="๐ฆ๐บ" title="Flagge von Australien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Australien">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