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- noun zoology Any member of the Tapejaridae.
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Examples
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In a nutshell: there is _no_ support for a supports a hip attachment, one specimen may show a knee attachment (but it's ambiguous at best), whereas specimens of Eudimorphodon, Anurognathus, Jeholopterus, Rhamphorhynchus, Sordes, Beipopterus and a tapejarid (at least, there may be some I've forgotten) all give either hints of an ankle attachment or show it quite convincingly.
Archive 2009-06-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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In a nutshell: there is _no_ support for a supports a hip attachment, one specimen may show a knee attachment (but it's ambiguous at best), whereas specimens of Eudimorphodon, Anurognathus, Jeholopterus, Rhamphorhynchus, Sordes, Beipopterus and a tapejarid (at least, there may be some I've forgotten) all give either hints of an ankle attachment or show it quite convincingly.
Life's Time Capsule: Dr. Mark Witton weighs in on Pterosaur wings Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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A new species of Huaxiapterus (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China with comments on the systematics of tapejarid pterosaurs.
Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006
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Inspired mostly by the discovery of a new specimen, our research culminated in the 2006 publication of our paper ‘Cranial crest development in the azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly’.
Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006
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Cranial crest development in the azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Inspired mostly by the discovery of a new specimen, our research culminated in the 2006 publication of our paper ‘Cranial crest development in the azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly’.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Cranial crest development in the azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly.
Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006
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That green thing he's holding is a life-sized model of a tapejarid pterosaur skeleton.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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A new species of Huaxiapterus (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China with comments on the systematics of tapejarid pterosaurs.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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To my eyes, these make the creature superficially similar to a tapejarid pterosaur, in particular to the sail-crested taxa
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