In Figure 10, Frey et al., (2003) illustrated a reconstruction of the
cranial crests with soft parts of pterosaurs Pterodactylus sp.,
Huanhepterus quinyangensis, Germanodactylus cristatus, Germanodactylus
rhamphastinus, Phobetopter parvus, Dsungaripterus weii, Tapejara
imperator, Tapejara wellnhoferi, Tupuxuara longicristatus and
Gnathosaurus subulatus. They still divided these pterosaur skulls in
five basic parts: soft-tissue crista, fibrous crista, rhamphotheca,
occipital cone and bone.
They reconstructed the cranial crest of these pterosaurs with support on
the new Pterodactylus specimen (JME SOS 4784) with a preserved fibrous
cone and others soft-tissues.
Is the fibrous occipital cone an not mineralized occipital spine (=
parietal crest)? This soft-tissue crests reconstructions be correct?
Frey, E.; Tischilinger, H.; Buchy, M.-C. & Martill, D.M., 2003. New
specimens of Pterosauria (Reptilia) with soft partes with implications
for pterosaurian anatomy and locomotion. In: Buffetaut, E. & Mazin,
J.-M. (Eds.) Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological
Society, London, Special Publications, 217, 233-266.
Regards,
Bruno
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Bruno
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