RE: More pterosaur stuff (Kunpengopterus)

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

Wait, no comment from the masses (save me) about the grammar in the name 
construction in *Wukongopteridae*? Same on you, guys, and on you David, since 
you're usually the first to pounce on this sort of thing. Shame.

Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff (site v2)
http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:19:40 +0000
> From: bh480@scn.org
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: More pterosaur stuff (Kunpengopterus)
>
> From: Ben Creisler
> bh480@scn.org
>
> In case this has not been mentioned yet by anybody who
> downloaded the free pdf of the new Pteranodon article,
> there is another article (free pdf) in the same issue
> with new pterosaur taxa. The paper distinguishes
> Wukongopterus from Darwinopterus and adds a new genus
> (Kunpengopterus) and a new species of Darwinopterus:
>
>
> XIAOLIN WANG, ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER, SHUNXING JIANG,
> XIN CHENG, XI MENG and TAISSA RODRIGUES. 2010.
> New long-tailed pterosaurs (Wukongopteridae) from western
> Liaoning, China.
> Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 82(4): 1045-
> 1062.
> ISSN 0001-3765. doi: 10.1590/S0001-37652010000400024.
> http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?
> script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-
> 37652010000400024&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=en
>
> Two almost complete long-tailed pterosaurs from the
> Linglongta, Jianchang County, western Liaoning, China,
> are described and represent new taxa referred to the non-
> pterodactyloid clade Wukongopteridae. Kunpengopterus
> sinensis gen. et sp. nov. differs from other members of
> this clade mainly by the rounded posterior region of the
> skull, thick lacrimal process of the jugal and lack of a
> bony premaxillary crest. This species further shows a
> soft tissue crest above the frontal, a comparatively
> larger wing finger, and the proximal segment of the
> second pedal phalanx of the fifth toe shorter than in
> other wukongopterids. The second new species is referred
> to the genus Darwinopterus, D. linglongtaensis sp. nov.
> based on the posterior region of the skull. It further
> differs from other wukongopterid pterosaurs by the thin
> lacrimal process of the jugal, foramen on nasal process
> rounded, and by having the second pedal phalanx of the
> fifth toe less curved (115°). Several differences among
> the Wukongopteridae can be found in the dentition and the
> feet, suggesting that they might have occupied slightly
> different ecological niches. The long-tailed
> Changchengopterus pani is tentatively referred to this
> clade and new diagnosis for the wukongopterids
> Wukongopterus lii and Darwinopterus modularis is provided.
>
>
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> Also, there is a news story with artwork for a 3-D TV
> show about pterosaurs starring Sir David-Attenborough:
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1339263/Sir-
> David-Attenborough-flies-air-dinosaurs-new-TV-show.html?
> ito=feeds-newsxml
>
>
> And as mentioned in my earlier post, the new
> Palaeodiversity has an article (free pdf) about
> pterosaurs as archosaurs based on a fenestra in the
> mandible.
> http://www.palaeodiversity.org/currentissue.htm
>
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