The PTEROSAURIA - Cearadactylus

CEARADACTYLUS

Genus: Cearadactylus Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985

Etymology: "Ceará finger"

Type species: C. atrox

Other Species: none

Diagnosis: See type species.

Classification: Gnathosauriane

Species: C. atrox Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985

Etymology: "savage"

Holotype: F-PV-93 — Incomplete skull and mandibles. (Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985)

Referred Specimens: GIUA M. 4895 — Two cervical vertebrae with their zygapophyses in natural contact (Santanadactylus brasilensis paratype). (de Buisonjé, 1980)

Time: Middle to Upper Albian, Early Cretaceous

Horizon: Santana Formation, Araripe Group

Location: Araripe Plateau, Ceará, Brazil

Skull length: ~570 mm

Total length: ?

Wingspan: ?

Mass: ?

Diagnosis: Expanded, spatulate anterior end of mandibular symphysis considerably wider than corresponding expansion of the rostrum; basal diameter of third rostral tooth more than three times basal diameter of the fifth tooth. (Unwin, 2002)

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References:
Leonardi, G. & Borgomanero, G. 1985, Cearadactylus atrox nov. gen., nov. sp.: novo Pterosauria (Pterodactyloidea) da Chapada do Araripe, Ceara, Brasil. Resumos dos communicaçoes VIII Congresso bras. de Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 1983, 27, 75–80.

Unwin, D. M. 2002, On the systematic relationships of Cearadactylus atrox, an enigmatic Early Cretaceous pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil. Mitteilungen Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe, 5, 239-263.