Aussiedraco, new Australian pteranodontoid pterosaur

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From: Ben Creisler
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Also in the new Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (no pdf yet):

Kellner, Alexander W.A.; Rodiriques, Taissa  and  Costa, Fabiana R. 2011
Short note on a Pteranodontoid pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from western
Queensland, Australia. 
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83 (1): 301-308.
ISSN 0001-3765
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652011000100
018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

Flying reptiles from Australia are very rare, represented mostly by
isolated bones coming from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Toolebuc
Formation, which crops out in western Queensland. Among the first pterosaur
specimens discovered from this deposit is a mandibular symphysis that some
authors thought to have a particular affinity to species found in the
Cambridge Greensand (Cenomanian) of England. It was further referred as a
member of or closely related to one of the genera Ornithocheirus,
Lonchodectes or Anhanguera. Here we redescribe this specimen, showing that
it cannot be referred to the aforementioned genera, but represents a new
species of Pteranodontoid (sensu Kellner 2003), here named Aussiedraco
molnari gen. et sp. nov. It is the second named pterosaur from Australia
and confirms that the Toolebuc deposits are so far the most important for
our understanding of the flying reptile fauna of this country.




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