Re: [dinosaur] Parirau, new pterosaur from Late Cretaceous of New Zealand (free pdf)

To: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>, dinosaur-l@usc.edu

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] Parirau, new pterosaur from Late Cretaceous of New Zealand (free pdf)

Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:04:06 -0600

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Since this is a preprint on a website made for hosting manuscripts and not published in a peer-reviewed journal, I donât think this constitutes a valid naming. The author should have known better than to attempt to name a new taxon in a preprint.

On Dec 21, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:

Ben Creisler
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A new paper with free pdf:

Parirau ataroa gen. et sp. nov.

Carlos Albuquerque (2019)
A Late Cretaceous Lonchodectid?
bioRxiv (preprint)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.17.879783
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.17.879783v1

Free pdf:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.17.879783v1.full.pdf

A pterosaur ulnar specimen (NZMS CD 467) from the Mangahouanga Stream of New Zealand s North Island has been first described by Wiffen et al 1988. Assumed to belong to a Santanadactylus-like pterosaur, this taxon has not since been extensively described, with only a few tentative claims that it represents an azhdarchid. Here, I re-examine the specimen and compare it to other pterodactyloid taxa, noting peculiar features such as its plug-like (obdurate) ulnar end. Christened Parirau ataroa, this taxon is found to be a lonchodectid, which alongside the North American Navajodactylus boerei extends this clade into the world s youngest pterosaur faunas.