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What does the pteroid point to?

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Subject: What does the pteroid point to?
From: David Peters <davidrpeters@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 8:03:45 -0400
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What does the pteroid point to, if not the deltopectoral crest? Three recent 
studies do not have the pteroid directed toward the dpcrest but somewhere 
anterior to it and beyond, like the cervical series. 

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David Peters
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Frey E, Buchy M-C, Stinnesbeck W. 2006. Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis
n.g, n.sp, a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from
the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila).
Oryctos. 6:19â39.

Bennett SC. 2008. Morphological evolution of the forelimb of pterosaurs:
myology and function. In: Buffetaut E, Hone DWE, editors.
Zitteliana Series B, 28 (Special Volume: Flugsaurier: pterosaur
papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer). p. 127â141.

Prondvai, Edina and Hone, David W. E.(2009)'New models for the wing extension 
in pterosaurs',Historical Biology,

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