A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite

Despite being known for nearly two centuries, new specimens of the derived non-pterodactyloid pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus continue to be discovered and reveal new information about their anatomy and palaeobiology. Here we describe a specimen held in the collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palae...

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Autores principales: Hone, David, Henderson, Donald M., Therrien, François, Habib, Michael B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Paleontology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26312182
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1191
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author Hone, David
Henderson, Donald M.
Therrien, François
Habib, Michael B.
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Habib, Michael B.
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description Despite being known for nearly two centuries, new specimens of the derived non-pterodactyloid pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus continue to be discovered and reveal new information about their anatomy and palaeobiology. Here we describe a specimen held in the collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta, Canada that shows both preservation and impressions of soft tissues, and also preserves material interpreted as stomach contents of vertebrate remains and, uniquely, a putative coprolite. The specimen also preserves additional evidence for fibers in the uropatagium.
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spelling pubmed-45485002015-08-26 A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite Hone, David Henderson, Donald M. Therrien, François Habib, Michael B. PeerJ Paleontology Despite being known for nearly two centuries, new specimens of the derived non-pterodactyloid pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus continue to be discovered and reveal new information about their anatomy and palaeobiology. Here we describe a specimen held in the collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta, Canada that shows both preservation and impressions of soft tissues, and also preserves material interpreted as stomach contents of vertebrate remains and, uniquely, a putative coprolite. The specimen also preserves additional evidence for fibers in the uropatagium. PeerJ Inc. 2015-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4548500/ /pubmed/26312182 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1191 Text en © 2015 Hone et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Paleontology
Hone, David
Henderson, Donald M.
Therrien, François
Habib, Michael B.
A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title_full A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title_fullStr A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title_full_unstemmed A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title_short A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
title_sort specimen of rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite
topic Paleontology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4548500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26312182
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1191
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