maybe its the plural either because thats how they're known to most people, and-or because its a species, not one of Gould's Hopeful Monsters (and thus a one-off)
Subject: Re: [dinosaur]
Keresdrakon, new pterosaur from Cretaceous of Brazil (free pdf)
The name (_Keresdrakon_) is odd. It's named after the Keres, the "deathspirits who personified violent death in Greek mythology and are associated to doom and/or plunder". It's a great idea to name a pterosaur after the Keres - nothing wrong here. However,
"Keres" is plural. The singular is "Ker". "_Keresdrakon_" looks very 'cut-and-paste'. The name would perhaps be more appropriately rendered as "Kerdrakon" or "Kerodrakon". (Ben - any comments?)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:47 AM Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
Ben Creisler
A new paper in open access:
Free pdf:
Keresdrakon vilsoni gen. et sp. nov.
Alexander W.A. Kellner, Luiz C. Weinschütz, Borja Holgado, Renan A.M. Bantim & Juliana M. Sayão (2019)
A new toothless pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea) from Southern Brazil with insights into the paleoecology of a Cretaceous desert.
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 91, suppl.2: e20190768
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201920190768.
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652019000400517&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
Free pdf:
The first pterosaur bone bed from Brazil was reported in 2014 at the outskirts of the town Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná State, in the Southern region of the country. Here named 'cemitério dos pterossauros' site, these outcrops were referred to the Goio-Erê Formation (Turonian-Campanian) of the Caiuá Group (Bauru Basin) and revealed the presence of hundreds of isolated or partially articulated elements of the tapejarine pterosaur Caiuajara and fewer amounts of a theropod dinosaur. Here we present a new tapejaromorph flying reptile from this site, Keresdrakon vilsoni gen. et sp. nov., which shows a unique blunt ridge on the dorsal surface of the posterior end of the dentary. Morphological and osteohistological features indicate that all recovered individuals represent late juveniles or sub-adults. This site shows the first direct evidence of sympatry in Pterosauria. The two distinct flying reptiles coexisted with a theropod dinosaur, providing a rare glimpse of a paleobiological community from a Cretaceous desert.
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