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- noun zoology Any member of the Ornithocheiridae.
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Examples
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A specimen named Santanadactylus spixi Wellnhofer, 1985 is almost certainly a close relative of Tupuxuara (possibly even a member of the genus), despite the fact that it was named as a new species of an ornithocheirid genus (ornithocheirids are long-skulled toothed pterodactyloids closely related to Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus, and not particularly closely related to azhdarchoids).
Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006
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A specimen named Santanadactylus spixi Wellnhofer, 1985 is almost certainly a close relative of Tupuxuara (possibly even a member of the genus), despite the fact that it was named as a new species of an ornithocheirid genus (ornithocheirids are long-skulled toothed pterodactyloids closely related to Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus, and not particularly closely related to azhdarchoids).
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This fossil is believed to belong to a species of ornithocheirid, a type of fish-feeding reptile that was the largest of the toothed pterosaurs.
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The Texas specimen - a nearly complete mandible with most of its 54 teeth missing - is definitively younger than most other ornithocheirid specimens from Brazil, England and China, he says.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Myers 'article in theJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology is titled "A new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford Group of Texas."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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It is five million years younger than the only other known North American ornithocheirid.
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The first ornithocheirid remains from North America, discovered in Fort Worth, were described by former SMU student Young-Nam Lee and donated by amateur collector Chris Wadleigh, says SMU's Jacobs.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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It is five million years younger than the only other known North American ornithocheirid.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The newly identified reptile is only the second ornithocheirid ever documented in North America, Myers says.
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"Discovery of another ornithocheirid species in Texas hints at a diversity of pterosaurs in the Cretaceous of North America that wasn't previously realized," Myers says.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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