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Re: Orientognathus, new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from Jurassic of China



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Junchang Lü, Hanyong Pu, Li Xu, Xuefang Wei, Huali Chang & Martin Kundrát (2015)
A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits.
Zootaxa 3911(1): 119–129
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.7
http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3911.1.7

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On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
>
> A recent paper not yet mentioned:
>
> Junchang Lü, Hanyong Pu, Li Xu, Xuefang Wei, Huali Chang & Martin Kundrát 
> (2015)
> A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur (Pterosauria) from Jurassic deposits. .
> Zootaxa 3911(1): 119–129
> DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.7
> http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3911.1.7
>
>
>
> Compared to pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous from China, Late
> Jurassic pterosaurs are relatively rare. A new rhamphorhynchid
> pterosaur, Orientognathus chaoyngensis gen. et sp. nov., is erected
> based on an incomplete skeleton from the Upper Jurassic Tuchengzi
> Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China. It is identified by
> the following characters: the toothless tip of the lower jaw is
> slightly pointed; the length ratio of wing metacarpal to humerus is
> 0.38, the ulna is shorter than each wing phalanx and the tibia is
> nearly equal to femur in length. A phylogenetic analysis recovers
> Orientognathus chaoyngensis as a rhamphorhynchid pterosaur.
> Orientognathus chaoyngensis is perhaps the youngest Jurassic pterosaur
> from western Liaoning Province of China.