Keyword

pterosaurs

Description: Pterosaurs were an extinct group of flying reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era and are studied in vertebrate paleontology.

Primary topic: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (87%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q179204

OpenAlex ID: keywords/pterosaurs

The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades

2011 · Sterling J. Nesbitt · Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History · 877

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Basal Archosaurs: Phylogenetic Relationships and Functional Implications

1991 · Paul C. Sereno · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · 449

The illustrated encyclopedia of pterosaurs

1991 · Peter Wellnhofer · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 411

Modelling the Flying Bird

2008 · Theoretical ecology/Theoretical ecology series · 383

Classification and phylogeny of the diapsid reptiles

1985 · MICHAEL J. BENTON · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society · 371

On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs

2003 · David M. Unwin · Geological Society London Special Publications · 363

Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs

2003 · Julia Clarke · Journal of Paleontology · 320

Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group

2003 · Alexander W. A. Kellner · Geological Society London Special Publications · 300

The Osteology and Functional Morphology of the Late Cretaceous Pterosaur Pteranodon Part I. General Description of Osteology

2001 · S. Christopher Bennett · Palaeontographica Abteilung A · 298

Neuroanatomy of flying reptiles and implications for flight, posture and behaviour

2003 · Lawrence M. Witmer, Sankar Chatterjee, et al. · Nature · 285

Temperature, metabolic power and the evolution of endothermy

2010 · Andrew Clarke, Hans‐Otto Pörtner · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 270

Description of a new species of Anhangueridae(Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation(Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil

2000 · W. A. Kellner Alexander, Yukimitsu Tomida · National Science Museum monographs · 255

The ontogeny of Pteranodon and other pterosaurs

1993 · S. Christopher Bennett · Paleobiology · 238

Evolution and palaeobiology of pterosaurs

2003 · Eric Buffetaut, Jean-Michel Mazin · Geological Society London Special Publications · 237

Basal Archosaurs: Phylogenetic Relationships and Functional Implications

1991 · Paul C. Sereno · Memoir Society of Vertebrate Paleontology · 228

Scleromochlus taylori and the origin of dinosaurs and pterosaurs

1999 · Michael J. Benton · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 225

Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull

2009 · Junchang Lü, David M. Unwin, et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 218

Dinosaurian precursors from the Middle Triassic of Argentina:Marasuchus lilloensis, gen. nov.

1994 · Paul C. Sereno, Andrea B. Arcucci · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · 206

Dinosaur monophyly

1996 · Fernando E. Novas · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · 194

The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group

2014 · Brian Andres, James Clark, et al. · Current Biology · 192

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Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China

2005 · Xiaolin Wang, Alexander W. A. Kellner, et al. · Nature · 187

Unidirectional Airflow in the Lungs of Alligators

2010 · C. G. Farmer, Kent Sanders · Science · 180

The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil

2007 · David M. Martill, Günter Bechly, et al. · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 177

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

2011 · Lars Schmitz, Ryosuke Motani · Science · 173

Pterosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of West Texas: Discovery of the Largest Flying Creature

1975 · Douglas A. Lawson · Science · 173

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