Discovery of a Rare Pterosaur Bone Bed in a Cretaceous Desert with Insights on Ontogeny and Behavior of Flying Reptiles

A pterosaur bone bed with at least 47 individuals (wing spans: 0.65–2.35 m) of a new species is reported from southern Brazil from an interdunal lake deposit of a Cretaceous desert, shedding new light on several biological aspects of those flying reptiles. The material represents a new pterosaur, Ca...

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Autores principales: Manzig, Paulo C., Kellner, Alexander W. A., Weinschütz, Luiz C., Fragoso, Carlos E., Vega, Cristina S., Guimarães, Gilson B., Godoy, Luiz C., Liccardo, Antonio, Ricetti, João H. Z., de Moura, Camila C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4131874/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25118592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100005

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