-
belonged to a
teleosaurid stem-crocodilian
instead of a pterosaur. Most
ctenochasmatoids were
aquatic or semi-aquatic pterosaurs,
possessing large webbed hindfeet...
- (Andres, 2021). This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group, with all
other pterodactyloids...
-
Clark & Xu, 2014. This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group (represented as the group...
- were
presumably used for
filter feeding. The
bizarre Late Jur****ic
ctenochasmatoid Cycnorhamphus had a jaw with
teeth only at the tips, with bent jaws...
- the
length of the tibia),
while filter-feeding
pterosaurs like the
ctenochasmatoids had very
large feet (69% of
tibial length in Pterodactylus, 84% in...
- and Andres, 2018. This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group, with all
other pterodactyloids...
-
traditionally thought of as
archaeopterodactyloids closely related to the
ctenochasmatoids may have been more
closely related to the more
advanced dsungaripteroids...
-
having up-turned jaws and
powerful jaw and
tongue musculature.
Other ctenochasmatoids lack these, and are now
instead thought to have been spoonbill-like...
-
Aurorazhdarcho is an
extinct genus of
ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jur****ic
period (early
Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern...
- Andres'
analysis found Pterodactylus to be a
close relative of the
ctenochasmatoids. In 2017,
Steven Vidovic and
David Martill recovered a significantly...
