PeerJ (Mar 2021)

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

  • Xuefang Wei,
  • Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas,
  • Caizhi Shen,
  • Yanfang Guo,
  • Waisum Ma,
  • Deyu Sun,
  • Xuanyu Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11161
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
p. e11161

Abstract

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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.

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