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
Affiliations
Xuefang Wei
Key Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, Ministry of Natural Resource, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas
Federal University of ABC, São Bernardo, Brazil
Caizhi Shen
Dalian Natural History Museum, Dalian, Liaoning, China
Yanfang Guo
Dalian Natural History Museum, Dalian, Liaoning, China
Waisum Ma
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Deyu Sun
Jinzhou Paleontology Museum, Jinzhou, Liaoning, China
Xuanyu Zhou
Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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.
