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BRASILEODACTYLUS
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Genus: Brasileodactylus Kellner, 1984
Etymology: "Brazil finger"
Type species: B. araripensis
Other Species: B. sp.
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Ornithocheiridae
Species: B. araripensis Kellner, 1984
Etymology: "from Araripe"
Holotype: MN 4804-V — Anterior part of a mandibular symphysis. (Kellner, 1984)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Creataceous
Horizon: Lower Santana Formation
Location: Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Pterosaur with mandibular symphysis elongated with rounded tip, slightly arched, triangular in cross section, rostral end expanded from the 3rd alveoli, forming a flat surface, medial groove on the dorsal part of the symphysis, statrting on the rostral tip and widening caudally, rounded and elliptical alveoli with the inter-alveolar distance increasing caudally, comparatively thin and pointed teeth, teeth inclined forward, teeth present until the rostral end of the mandible. (Kellner, 1984)
Comments:
References:
Kellner, A. W. A. 1984, Ocorrencia de uma mandibula de pterosauria (
Brasileodactylus araripensis, nov. gen.; nov. sp.) na Formacao Santana, Cretaceo da Chapada do Araripe, Ceara-Brasil. Anais XXXIII Cong. Brasil. de Geol. pp. 578–590. Rio de Janeiro.Frey, E. & Martill, D. M. 1994, A new Pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Creatceous, Aptian) of Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Paläontology, Abhandlungen. 194, 379–412.
Sayão, J. M. & Kellner, A. W. A. 2000. Description of a pterosaur rostrum from the Crato Member, Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian) northeastern, Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional 54, 1-8.
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.
Veldmeijer, A. J., 2003. Preliminary description of a skull and wing of a Brazilian lower Cretaceous (Santana Formation; Aptian-Albian) pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) in the collection of the AMNH - PalArch, series vertebrate palaeontology, 1-13.
Veldmeijer, A. J., 2006 Toothed pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous; Aptian–Albian) of northeastern Brazil. (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht Universtiy, 2006). Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht. p. 1-269.
Species: S. sp. indet.
Specimens: MN 4797-V — Anterior end of rostrum and mandible. (Kellner & Sayão, 2000)
AMNH 24444 — Proximal part of right humerus. (Veldmeijer, 2003b)
SMNS 55414 — Mandible (Veldmeijer, 2006, Veldmeijer et al., in press)
BSP 1991 I 27 — Maxillary fragment, cervical vertebrae 6 to 9, dorsal vertebrae 1 to 10, three partial ribs, left and right scapulocoracoids, left and right humeri, distal part of right wing phalanx I, proximal part of right wing phalanx II, left pubis, fragments of the left and right ischia.(Veldmeijer, 2006, Veldmeijer et al., in press)
Time: Aptian, Early Creataceous
Horizon: Santana Formation
Location: Chapada do Araripe, Ceará, Brazil
Skull length:
AMNH 24444 —
Total length: ?
Wingspan:
AMNH 24444 —
Mass: ?
Comments:
References:
Sayão, J. M. & Kellner, A. W. A. 2000. Description of a pterosaur rostrum from the Crato Member, Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian) northeastern, Brazil. Boletim do Museu Nacional 54, 1-8.
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.
Veldmeijer, A. J., 2003. Preliminary description of a skull and wing of a Brazilian lower Cretaceous (Santana Formation; Aptian-Albian) pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) in the collection of the AMNH - PalArch, series vertebrate palaeontology, 1-13.
Veldmeijer, A. J., 2006 Toothed pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous; Aptian–Albian) of northeastern Brazil. (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht Universtiy, 2006). Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht. p. 1-269.