Re: Pterosaur Help

[Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia <fabdalla@box1.tin.it>]

In a message dated Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:33:21 EST Dinogeorge@aol.com writes:

<<Family: CAMPYLOGNATHOIDIDAE     Unwin, 1992
Census: 2 genera, 4 species

    = Campylognathoidinae Kuhn, 1967
    = Eudimorphodontidae Wellnhofer, 1978

        ........
Genus: Eudimorphodon Zambelli, 1973
= Endimorphodon Chaline, 1990 [sic]
E. ranzii Zambelli, 1973â? 
[New species to be described from the Late Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation 
of Greenland; Jenkins et al., 1993]

Genus: [To be described from the Late Triassic of Italy; a crested form with 
shark-like teeth; F. Dalla Vecchia, Ph.D. dissertation]>>

THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS NEW TAXON HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION ON THE
JVP. IT IS NOT FROM ITALY AND I WOULD AVOID TO CONSIDER IT A
CAMPYLOGNATHOIDID.

<<Genus: [To be described from the Late Triassic of Italy; a slender-snouted 
form that may represent a new family; F. Dalla Vecchia, pers. comm. at SVP 
meeting 1995]>>

OOOOPS! I DO NOT REMEMBER. PROBABLY IT IS THE EUDIMORPHODON SPECIES WHICH
DINOGEORGE FORGOT IN HIS LIST:

E. ROSENFELDI DALLA VECCHIA, 1995

REFERENCE: DALLA VECCHIA, F.M,.1995, A new pterosaur (Reptilia,
Pterosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Friuli (Northeastern
Italy). Preliminary note: Gortania - Atti Mus. Friul. St. Nat., 16 (1994):
59-66.


<<Family: RHAMPHORHYNCHIDAE (nom. emend. ex Rhamphorhynchae) Seeley, 1870
           Census: 12 genera (2 doubtful), 21 species (5 doubtful)

........
Genus: Preondactylus Wild, 1983
P. buffarinii Wild, 1983â? 
NOTE: This genus is listed in its own as-yet-unnamed new family by Unwin (in 
Benton, 1993). Referred to this family provisionally.>>

PREONDACTYLUS IS  N O T  A RHAMPHORHYNCHIDAE!!!!
PLEASE, READ: 
DALLA VECCHIA, F. M., 1998, New observations on the osteology and taxonomic
status of Preondactylus buffarinii WILD, 1984 (Reptilia, Pterosauria):
Boll. Soc. Paleont. It., 36 (3, 1997): 355-366.

DALLA VECCHIA, F. M., 2000, A wing phalanx of a large basal pterosaur
(Diapsida, Pterosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of NE Italy: Boll.
Soc. Paleont. It., 39(2): 229-234.
DALLA VECCHIA, F. M., 2001, Triassic pterosaurs: unravelling the puzzle.
Two hundred years of Pterosaurs - A symposium on the anatomy, evolution,
palaeobiology and environments of Mesozoic Flyng Reptiles, Tolouse, France,
September 5-8, 2001. Strata, 11 (Série 1): 33-35, Tolouse. 

MY PAPERS ARE IN ENGLISH (REVIEWED), THUS YOU ARE NOT EXCUSED.  


<<Genus: [To be described from Cene, near Bergamo, Italy; Fraser & Unwin,
1990]>>

ABSOLUTELY NOT EXISTING

<<Genus: [To be described from southern Austria; Fraser & Unwin, 1990]>>
IT IS THE TRIASSIC CRESTED PTEROSAUR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION IN JVP.

<<Genus: [To be described from the Triassic of Kalgary, western Texas; Murry, 
1986]>>
ONLY TEETH SUPPOSED TO BE EUDIMORPHODON TEETH (AND KALGARY IS OK: PROBABLY
A SMALL TOWN OF TEXAS, NOT CANADA)

THE TAXONOMY OF EARLY PTEROSAURS IS A MESS. I SUGGEST TO BE CAREFUL IN
ACCEPTING AS CORRECT THE DESCRIPTIONS YOU FIND IN LITERATURE AND TO L O O K 
 A T  T H E  S P E C I M E N S!!!

If you need a list of references about pterosaurs, just ask it.
 
Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia
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Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, PhD
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