ARARIPESAURUS

Genus: Araripesaurus Price, 1971

Etymology: "Chapada do Araripe lizard"

Type species: A. castilhoi

Other Species: none

Diagnosis: See type species.

Classification: Ornithocheiroidea incertae sedis

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Holotype: DGM 529-R — Partial right wing including a distal part of the ulna and radius, proximal carpal series, distal lateral carpal, pteroid, metacarpals I to IV, complete digit I, a phalanx and ungual of digit II, two phalanges of digit III, proximal articulation of phalanx I digit IV, and two incomplete wing phalanges. (Price, 1971)

Referred Specimens: none

Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous

Horizon: Romualdo Member, Santana Formation, Araripe Group

Location: Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil

Skull length: ?

Total length: ?

Wingspan: ?

Mass: ?

Diagnosis: Proximal carpal series composed of two carpals, strong McIV, McIII about the same length as McIV, McIII articulating with carpus, McIII reduced in diameter, McII reduced to distal portion, McI reduced to distal portion, McII shorter than half the length of McIV, McI shorter than half the length of McIV. (Price, 1971)
Foramen in the upper part of the extensor tendon process (Kellner, 1991, Kellner & Tomida, 2000)

Comments:

References:
Price, L. I. 1971 A presença de Pterosauria no Cretaceo Inferior da Chapada do Araripe, Brasil. Anais Acad. bras. Cienc. 43 (suppl.), 452–461.

Wellnhofer P; 1985, Neue Pterosaurier aus der Santana-Formation (Apt) der Chapada do Araripe, Brasilien, Palaontographica, A,187: 105-182 Stuttgart.

Kellner, A. W. A., 1991, Pterossauros do Brasil. M. Sc. Thesis, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 543 p (unpublished).

Kellner, A. W. A. and Tomida., Y. 2000, Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian -Albian), Northeastern Brazil. National Science Museum Monographs No. 17, National Science Museum, Tokyo. p. 1-135.

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