Pterosaurs, and more pterosaurs!

["Ivan Kwan" <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>]

1) What sort of crest did _Pterodactylus_ have? Would it be the sort as 
shown in Aspidel's Solnhofen drawing on the Dinosauricon here 
http://dino.lm.com/images/display.php?id=800, and would _P.kochi_ and _P. 
antiquus_ have the same sort of crest?

2) Are _P. kochi_ & _P. antiquus_ even that closely related anyway? I'd 
always read somewhere (DP's Pterosaur Homepage IIRC) that kochi was 
ancestral to ctenochasmatoids, and antiquus to azhdarchoids. And so does 
_Pterodactylus_ belong to the ctenochasmatoids or in a clade of its own?

3) Any crest known for _Nyctosaurus_? (besides the recent 'antler' one?) I'd 
always seen _Nyctosaurus_ reconstructions with a small stubby 
_Pteranodon_-like crest; is this reflected in the fossil record?

4) _Istiodactylus_: where the hell does it fit in pterosaur phylogeny? Is 
this the same as that new Isle of Wight pterosaur with a 
_Brasileodactylus_-like crest as well as a snout crest reminiscent of 
_Anhanguera_?

5) Would _Germanodactylus_ & _Normannognathus_ be considered basal 
dsungaripteroids? And are cristatus & rhamphastinus considered closely 
related enough to be placed in the same genus?

6) _Anhanguera piscator_ - Still valid? Or has it been synonymised with 
_Coloborhynchus robustus_?

7) _Siroccopteryx moroccensis â?? Valid genus or sunk into _Coloborhynchus_ 
as _C. moroccensis_? And did this critter look more like _Anhanguera_ or 
_Coloborhynchus_?

8) _Cearadactylus_ - Ctenochasmatoid or Ornithocheiroid?

9) _Araripedactylus_, _Araripesaurus_, _Brasileodactylus_, _Ludodactylus_, 
_Arthurdactylus_ - all Ornithocheiroids I presume??

10) Tapejarids & Tupuxuarids â?? Azhdarchoids or Ornithocheiroids?

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