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MUZQUIZOPTERYX
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Genus: Muzquizopteryx Frey, Buchy, Stinnesbeck, González-González & di Stefano vide Stinnesbeck, Ifrim, Schmidt, Rindfleisch, Buchy, Frey, González-González, Vega, Cavin, Keller & Smith 2005 [nomen nudum]
Etymology: "Múzquiz (county) wing"
Type species: M. coahuilensis
Other Species: none
Diagnosis:
Classification: Nyctosauridae
Species: M. coahuilensis Frey, Buchy, Stinnesbeck, González-González & di Stefano vide Stinnesbeck, Ifrim, Schmidt, Rindfleisch, Buchy, Frey, González-González, Vega, Cavin, Keller & Smith 2005 [nomen nudum]
Etymology: "from Coahuila, Mexico"
Holotype: UNAM IGM 8621 — a nearly complete and articulated specimen with impressions of soft tissue. (Stinnesbeck, Ifrim, Schmidt, Rindfleisch, Buchy, Frey, González-González, Vega, Cavin, Keller & Smith 2005)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Coniacian, Late Cretaceous
Horizon: Yellow member, El Rosario sequence, Austin Group
Location: Múzquiz County, Coahuila State, northeastern Mexico
Skull length: ?
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 2 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis:
Comments:
References:
Stinnesbeck, W., Ifrim, C., Schmidt, H., Rindfleisch, A., Buchy M.-C., Frey, E., González-González, A. H., Vega F. J., Cavin L., Keller, G., and Smith, K. T., 2005, A new lithographic limestone deposit in the Upper Cretaceous Austin Group at El Rosario, county of Múzquiz, Coahuila, northeastern Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, vol. 22, 3, p. 401-418.
Frey, E., Buchy, M.-C., Stinnesbeck, W., González-González, A.H., di Stefano, A., in press, Muzquizopterix coahuilensis n.g., n.sp., first evidence for the presence of nyctosaurid pterosaurs in the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeastern Mexico (Coahuila): Oryctos.