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Maaradactylus

Wikipedia Abstract

Maaradactylus is a genus of anhanguerid pterosaur known from Lower Cretaceous rocks of northeastern Brazil. Maaradactylus is based on Museu Paleontologico de Santana do Cariri specimen MPSC R 2357, a skull, atlas, and axis discovered in 2010 in the Aptian—Albian-age Romualdo Formation of Sítio São Gonçalo, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, in the Araripe Basin of Brazil. This skull, one of the largest anhanguerid skulls from the basin and indicating a wingspan of about six metres, has a relatively tall crest running along the midline of the premaxillary bones, which make up most of the upper beak region, and placements for 35 pairs of teeth in the upper jaws.
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0