Tapejara wellnhoferi 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

Belongs to Tapejara according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Headden and Campos 2014, Kellner 1989, Kellner and Campos 2007 and Unwin 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CD-R-080, 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 frugivore

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

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