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Re: contemporaneous pterosaurs

To: Jordan Mallon <j_mallon@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: contemporaneous pterosaurs
From: "T. Mike Keesey" <tmk@dinosauricon.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 12:54:39 -0400 (EDT)
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jordan Mallon wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> Just a quick question...
> Which pterosaurs would've been contemporaneous to _Tarbosaurus bataar_ and 
> _Saurolophus angustirostris_?  I need to know for a drawing I'm working on.

I don't think there *are* any Pterosauria from the Maastrichtian of
eastern Asia. Closest things would probably be _Arambourgiania_, from
Jordan, and _Quetzalcoatlus_, from North America. Pterosauria had just
about been replaced by birds at that point.

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