Reptilia - Pterosauria - Thalassodromidae
Alternative combination: Tepuxuara longicristatus
Full reference: A. W. A. Kellner and D. d. A. Campos. 1988. Sobre um novo pterossauro com crista sagital da Bacia do Araripe, Cretáceo Inferior do nordeste do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 60(4):459-469
Belongs to Tupuxuara according to B. Andres et al. 2014
See also Kellner and Campos 1988, Kellner and Campos 2007, Martill and Naish 2006, Nessov 1991 and Unwin 2003
Sister taxa: Tupuxuara deliradamus, Tupuxuara leonardii
Type specimen: CD-R-003, a skull. Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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