TY - JOUR
T1 - Osteology of an exceptionally well-preserved tapejarid skeleton from Brazil
T2 - Revealing the anatomy of a curious pterodactyloid clade
AU - Beccari, Victor
AU - Pinheiro, Felipe Lima
AU - Nunes, Ivan
AU - Anelli, Luiz Eduardo
AU - Mateus, Octávio
AU - Costa, Fabiana Rodrigues
N1 -
407969/ 2016-0
305758/2017-9
16/2551-0000271-1
UIDB/ 04035/2020
421772/2018-2
PY - 2021/8/25
Y1 - 2021/8/25
N2 - A remarkably well-preserved, almost complete and articulated new specimen (GP/2E 9266) of Tupandactylus navigans is here described for the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. The new specimen comprises an almost complete skeleton, preserving both the skull and post-cranium, associated with remarkable preservation of soft tissues, which makes it the most complete tapejarid known thus far. CT-Scanning was performed to allow the assessment of bones still covered by sediment. The specimen can be assigned to Tupa. navigans due to its vertical supra-premaxillary bony process and short and rounded parietal crest. It also bears the largest dentary crest among tapejarine pterosaurs and a notarium, which is absent in other representatives of the clade. The new specimen is here regarded as an adult individual. This is the first time that postcranial remains of Tupa. navigans are described, being also an unprecedented record of an articulated tapejarid skeleton from the Araripe Basin.
AB - A remarkably well-preserved, almost complete and articulated new specimen (GP/2E 9266) of Tupandactylus navigans is here described for the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. The new specimen comprises an almost complete skeleton, preserving both the skull and post-cranium, associated with remarkable preservation of soft tissues, which makes it the most complete tapejarid known thus far. CT-Scanning was performed to allow the assessment of bones still covered by sediment. The specimen can be assigned to Tupa. navigans due to its vertical supra-premaxillary bony process and short and rounded parietal crest. It also bears the largest dentary crest among tapejarine pterosaurs and a notarium, which is absent in other representatives of the clade. The new specimen is here regarded as an adult individual. This is the first time that postcranial remains of Tupa. navigans are described, being also an unprecedented record of an articulated tapejarid skeleton from the Araripe Basin.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85113738088&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0254789
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0254789
M3 - Article
C2 - 34432814
AN - SCOPUS:85113738088
VL - 16
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
SN - 1932-6203
IS - 8 August
M1 - e0254789
ER -