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CACIBUPTERYX
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Genus: Cacibupteryx Gasparini, Fernández & de la Fuente, 2004
Etymology: "lord of the sky wing"
Type species: C. caribensis
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species
Classification: Breviquartossa node innom.
Holotype: IGO-V 208 — Incomplete, uncrushed skull, distal end of the left ulna, fragments of the left radius, left phalanx I of digit IV, phalanx IV of digit IV. (Gasparini, Fernández & de la Fuente, 2004)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Oxfordian, Late Jurassic
Horizon: Jagua Vieja Member, Jagua Formation
Location: Pinar del Río Province, Cuba
Skull length: ?240 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A rhamphorhynchid pterosaur with broadly expanded skull roof elements, subcircular orbits with their ventral half more compressed, orbital ventral margin level with dental border, the section of the jugal that forms the postero-ventral border of the orbit bears a well-developed pocket-like recess, a small fenestra is located in the posterior part of the pterygoid. (Gasparini, Fernández & de la Fuente, 2004)
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References:
Gasparini Z., Fernández M. & de la Fuente M., 2004, A new pterosaur from the Jurassic of Cuba. Palaeontology, July 2004, vol. 47, iss. 4, pp. 919-927(9).