re: Papers on pterosaur ontogeny

[David Peters <davidpeters@att.net>]

Hi Nick,

Old request, but a quick scan revealed nothing was answered online. Apologies 
if this duplicates earlier replies.

Almost anything by Chris Bennett, including his new paper on the small 
anurognathid, has something to do with ontogeny. Wellnhofer (1970, 1975, and 
1991) labeled many a juvenile. Also David Unwin's The Pterosaurs from Deep Time 
dips its unguals in these waters.

Refs below.

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BENNETT, S.C. 1993. The ontogeny of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs. 
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Bennett, S.C. 1996b. Year-classes of pterosaurs from the Solnhofen Limestone of 
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BENNETT, S.C. 2004. New information on the pterosaur Scaphognathus 
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BENNETT, S.C. 2006. Juvenile specimens of the pterosaur Germanodactylus 
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BENNETT, S.C. 2007. A review of the pterosaur Ctenochasma: taxonomy and 
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BENNETT, S. C. 2008. A second specimen of the pterosaur Anurognathus ammoni. 
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