The PTEROSAURIA - Montanazhdarcho

MONTANAZHDARCHO

Genus: Montanazhdarcho Padian, de Ricqlès & Horner, 1995

Etymology: "Montana Azhdarcho"

Type species: M. minor

Other Species: none

Diagnosis: See type species.

Classification: Azhdarchidae

Species: M. minor Padian, de Ricqlès & Horner, 1995

Etymology: "small"

Holotype: MOR 691 — Humerus, ulna, partial radius, proximal and partial medial carpals, wing metacarpal, partial first wing phalanx, right and partial left scapulocoracoids, martial mandible, crushed cervical vertebra, natural impression of another wing phalanx. (Padian, de Ricqlès & Horner, 1995)

Referred Specimens: none

Time: Campanian, Late Cretaceous

Horizon: Upper Two Medicine Formation

Location: Glacier County, Blackfoot Nation, Montana, USA

Skull length: ?

Total length: ?

Wingspan: ~ 2.5 m

Mass: ?

Diagnosis: An azhdarchid pterosaur with small adult size (wingspan about 2.5 m) relative to other azhdarchids, and an ulna of equal or greater length than the wing metacarpal. (McGowen, Padian, De Sosa, & Harmon, 2002)

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References:

Padian K., Horner J. R., de Ricqlès A. J., 1993, A new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) of Montana, identified on the basis of bone histology, Journal of Vert. Paleont., 13:52A.

McGowen M. R., Padian K., De Sosa M. A., and Harmon R. J., 2002, Description of Montanazhdarcho minor, an azhdarchid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana. PaleoBios 22(1).