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PHOBETOR
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Genus: Phobetor Bakhurina, 1986/Krøyer, 1844 [nomen nudum]
Etymology: "frightening one"
Type species: P. parvus
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Dsungaripteridae
Species: P. parvus (Bakhurina, 1982) Bakhurina, 1986
Etymology: "small"
Synonyms: Dsungaripterus parvus Bakhurina, 1982
Holotype: PIN 3953 — Left proximal carpal, left distal carpal, left lateral carpal, proximal end of the left metacarpal IV, proximal end of a left wing phalanx, proximal end of the right radius, proximal end of the left tibia, proximal end of the left femur, distal end of the left femur. (Bakhurina, 1982)
Referred Specimens: GIN 100/31 — Complete skull and mandible. (Ivakhnenkho & Korabelʹnikov, 1987)
Approximately 45 other individuals; adults and juveniles. (Ivakhnenkho & Korabelʹnikov, 1987)
Time: Berriasian-Valanginian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Tsagaantsav Svita
Location: Holotype: 70 km NNE of Lake Khar Us Nuur, Khovd Aimag, Mongolia
Referred Specimens: Sagiin Dalai Nuur Depression, Tatal, Khovd Aimag, Mongolia
Skull length: 360 - ?720 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 1 - 4 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Wing span of approximately 1.5 m. Facets of tibia elongate and rounded, at right angles to the axis of the bone. (Bakhurina, 1982)
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References:
Bakhurina, N. N., 1982, Pterodaktilʹ iz nizhnyevo myela Mongoli. Paleont. Zh. pp. 104–108. [A pterodactyl from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleont. J. 4:104-108.] Moscow.
Bakhurina, N. N., 1984, [On the discovery of numerous remains of pterosaurs in the Early Cretaceous locality of Tatal, western Mongolia.] Byulletenʹ Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytaetlei Prirody, Otdel Geologicheskii 59 (3): 130.
Bakhurina, N. N., 1986, [Flying reptiles.] Priroda (1986), 7: 27-36.
Ivakhnenkho, M.F. and Korabelʹnikov, V.A., 1987. [Life of the past world], 253 pp. Moscow: Proveshchenie Press.
Bakhurina, N. N., 1992 Pterosaurs from continental deposits of Middle Asia, Mongolia and China. Paleont. Newslett. 16, 11.
Bakhurina, N. N., 1993 Early cretaceous pterosaurs from western Mongolia and the evolutionary history of the Dsungaripteroidea. J. Vert. Paleont. 13(3), 24A.
Bakhurina, N. N. & Unwin, D. M. 1995 A survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology, 10, 197–245.
Unwin, D. M. & N. N. Bakhurina, 2000, Pterosaurs from Russia, Middle Asia and Mongolia, in Benton, MJ, MA Shishkin, DM Unwin & EN Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia Cambridge Univ. Press, pp. 420-433.