Tapejara Kellner 1989 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Tapejaridae

Full reference: A. W. A. Kellner. 1989. A new edentate pterosaur of the Lower Cretaceous from the Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 61(4):439-446

Parent taxon: Tapejaridae according to J. A. Headden and H. B. N. Campos 2014

See also Andres et al. 2014, Kellner 1989, Kellner and Campos 2007, Lü et al. 2006, Martill and Naish 2006, Pinheiro et al. 2011 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: Afrotapejara, Chaoyangopterinae, Huaxiapterus, Ingridia, Sinopterus, Tapejarinae, Thalassodrominae, Tupandactylus, Wightia

Subtaxa: Tapejara wellnhoferi

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Ecology: volant frugivore

Distribution: found only at Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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