- for filter-feeding.
Ctenochasmatids lived from the Late Jur****ic to the
Early Cretaceous periods. The
earliest known ctenochasmatid remains date to the...
- Middle–Late Jur****ic boundary. Jur****ic
pterodactyloids include the
ctenochasmatids, like Ctenochasma,
which have
closely spaced needle-like
teeth that...
- straight,
which are
unlike the
upwardly curved jaws seen in the
related ctenochasmatids. Pterodactylus, like
related pterosaurs, had a
crest on its
skull composed...
-
earliest known ctenochasmatid and the
first filter-feeding
pterosaur from the Jur****ic
Yanliao Biota.
Later and more
specialized ctenochasmatids differ from...
-
skull and jaws but not near the ends of
their snouts. Similarly, the
ctenochasmatid Feilongus also had its
teeth confined within its jaw tips, as well as...
- (from Gr**** pteron, 'wing' and
Latin auster, 'south') is a
genus of
ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from
South America. Its
fossil remains dated...
-
several pterosaur families,
including pterodactylids, rhamphorhinchids,
ctenochasmatids and azhdarchids. All
preserve bones that show a
relatively high degree...
-
Forfexopterus were more
curved than
other ctenochasmatids, and they were also less
dense than
contemporary ctenochasmatids (with a
tooth density of 2.2 per centimetre...
- This
feature is also unique, as an
expansion is
present in
other ctenochasmatids. Due to the
elongated wing
metatarsal of the specimen,
Jiang et al...
-
phylogenetic analysis and
found that
Elanodactylus was a
ctenochasmatid. They
postulated that
ctenochasmatids and
azhdarchids convergently evolved similar neck...
