Very exciting new study in PeerJ on #azhdarchids, with two new taxa (Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx), multiple new clade names and new placements for key taxa... peerj.com/articles/197...

The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @rv-pegas.bsky.social

⚠️Pterosaur alert🔔

Please welcome Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx, two azhdarchids from the Bayanshiree Fm. of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia!

Despite known only from cervical remains, these elements are surprisingly informative for Azhdarchidae and help us ID them quite well [+]

We're proud to reveal our new posters! A lot of effort went into the big mural-style poster especially. These will soon all be shipped out to backers who ordered them, and eventually we'll open an online store where you can buy them as well!

Some issues with this. "Looks like"? Let's see the CT scans of the skeleton and teeth: that will tell us if they are morphologically similar to Aenocyon dirus rather than Canis lupus.

"Act like"?!?!?! We don't **KNOW** what they acted like! Kind of a big issue in paleo!

As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:

Please welcome the first named pterosaur species from Japan: Nipponopterus mifunensis!!
Thanks to N. Ikegami and X. Zhou for allowing me to take part in this study!
With the magnificent artwork of Zhao Chuang

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Please welcome the first named pterosaur species from Japan: Nipponopterus mifunensis!!
Thanks to N. Ikegami and X. Zhou for allowing me to take part in this study!
With the magnificent artwork of Zhao Chuang

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-Museu de Zoologia da USP em São Paulo
- Museu de Paleontologia de Peirópolis, Uberaba-MG
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- Museu de Paleontologia de Marília-SP
- Museu de Ciências da Terra no Rio de Janeiro
- Museu Câmara Cascudo, em Natal-RN
- Museu de História Natural da PUC de BH

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