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THALASSODROMEUS
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Genus: Thalassodromeus Kellner & Campos, 2002
Etymology: "sea runner"
Type species: T. sethi
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Tupuxuaridae
Species: T. sethi Kellner & Campos, 2002
Etymology: "for Seth (Egyptian god)"
Synonyms: Thalassodromeus "oberli" Veldmeijer, 2004 [nomen non rite publicatum] — Etymology: "for Urs Oberli"
Holotype: DGM 1476-R — skull and lower jaw (Kellner & Campos, 2002)
SAO 251093 — anterior portion of mandible (Veldmeijer, Signore & Meijer, 2005)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian-Albian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Romualdo Member, Santana Formation, Ceará, Brazil
Skull length: ~1420 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Well developed frontal crest composed of premaxillae, frontal, parietal, and suproccipital, statring at the tip of the skull and extended posteriorly, well behind the occipital region, posterior end of the cranial crest v-shaped, suture between premaxillae and prontoparietal region of the crest rectilinear, anterior portion of premaxillae and dentary with sharp dorsal and ventral edges, palatines before palatal crest strongly concave, occipital region broader than in any other tapejarids (width over quadrates, 20% of squamosal to premaxilla langth). (Kellner & Campos, 2002) Anterior part [of mandible], starting from the anterior border of the mandibular sulcus, bent in dorsal direction. (Veldmeijer, Signore & Meijer, 2005)
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References:
Kellner A. W. A. and Campos D. A., 2002, The function of the cranial crest and jaws of a unique pterosaur from the early Cretaceous of Brazil. Science. vol. 297, no. 5580 19 July 2002, pp. 389-392.
Silva, H. P. & Kellner, A. W. A. 2003, Preparation of Thalassodromeus sethi (Pterosauria: Tapejaridae): One combination of techniques. Abstracts of III Brazilian Symposium of Paleovertebrates.
Kellner, A. W. A. 2004, New information on the Tapejaridae (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) and discussion of the relationships of this clade. Ameghiniana (Rev. Asoc. Paleontol. Argent.) 41 (4): 521-534.
Veldmeijer, A. J. (2004). Courtesy of the Bayerische Staatsammlung für Paläontologie und Historiche Geologie: Pterosaurs. Retrieved February 24, 2004, from Homepage of André J. Veldmeijer Web site: http://members.lycos.nl/palarch/palaeontology/pal2.htm
Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20040224054150/http://members.lycos.nl/palarch/palaeontology/pal2.htm
Veldmeijer, A. J., Signore, M. & Meijer, H. J. M., 2005, Description of two pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) mandibles from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Brazil. Deinsea (Annual of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam) 11: 67-86.
Veldmeijer, A. J., 2006 Toothed pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Cretaceous; Aptian–Albian) of northeastern Brazil. (Doctoral dissertation, Utrecht Universtiy, 2006). Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht. p. 1-269.