Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group

Autor(es)

Wei, Xuefang ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Pegas, Rodrigo Vargas ^[4] ; Shen, Caizhi ^[5] ; Guo, Yanfang ^[5] ; Ma, Waisum ^[6] ; Sun, Deyu ^[7] ; Zhou, Xuanyu ^{[8, 9]}

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Chinese Acad Geol Sci, Inst Geol, Key Lab Stratig & Palaeontol, Minist Nat Resource, Beijing - Peoples R China

^[2] China Univ Geosci, Beijing - Peoples R China

^[3] China Geol Survey, Ctr Cores & Samples Nat Resources, Beijing - Peoples R China

^[4] Fed Univ ABC, Sao Bernardo - Brazil

^[5] Dalian Nat Hist Museum, Dalian, Liaoning - Peoples R China

^[6] Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham, W Midlands - England

^[7] Jinzhou Paleontol Museum, Jinzhou, Liaoning - Peoples R China

^[8] Hokkaido Univ, Dept Nat Hist Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido - Japan

^[9] Beipiao Pterosaur Museum China, Beipiao, Liaoning - Peoples R China

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PeerJ; v. 9, MAR 31 2021.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Anurognathids are an elusive group of diminutive, potentially arboreal pterosaurs. Even though their monophyly has been well-supported, their intrarelationships have been obscure, and their phylogenetic placement even more. In the present work, we present a new genus and species from the Middle-Late Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation, the third nominal anurognathid species from the Jurassic of China. The new species provides new information concerning morphological diversity for the group. Furthermore, we provide a new phylogenetic analysis incorporating into a single data set characters from diverging phylogenetic proposals. Our results place them as the sister-group of Darwinoptera + Pterodactyloidea, as basal members of the Monofenestrata. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 19/10231-6 - Biomecânica da postura da asa em voo de Anhanguera piscator e Tupuxuara leonardii (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) e considerações acerca da evolução do voo no grupo
• Beneficiário: Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado