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Ctenochasma, the Glossary

Ctenochasma (meaning "comb jaw") is a genus of Late Jurassic ctenochasmatid pterosaur belonging to the suborder Pterodactyloidea.^[1]

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Ctenochasmatoids
Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Europe
Fossil taxa described in 1852
Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe

Aurorazhdarcho

Aurorazhdarcho is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jurassic period (early Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern Germany. Ctenochasma and Aurorazhdarcho are ctenochasmatoids and Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Beipiaopterus

Beipiaopterus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian stage) of what is now the Yixian Formation of the China. Ctenochasma and Beipiaopterus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Calcaires tachetés

The Calcaires tachetés is a geologic formation in France.

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Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer

Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (3 September 1801 – 2 April 1869), known as Hermann von Meyer, was a German palaeontologist.

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Cladogram

A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.

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Ctenochasmatidae

Ctenochasmatidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. Ctenochasma and Ctenochasmatidae are ctenochasmatoids.

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Elanodactylus

Elanodactylus (meaning "Kite finger") is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (early Aptian stage) of what is now the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. Ctenochasma and Elanodactylus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Eosipterus

Eosipterus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Liaoning, China. Ctenochasma and Eosipterus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Feilongus

Feilongus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian–Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China. Ctenochasma and Feilongus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Filter feeder

Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Friedrich Adolph Roemer

Friedrich Adolph Roemer (15 April 1809 – 25 November 1869), German geologist, was born at Hildesheim, in the Kingdom of Westphalia.

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Gegepterus

Gegepterus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. Ctenochasma and Gegepterus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gnathosaurus

Gnathosaurus (meaning "jawed lizard") is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur containing two species: G. subulatus, named in 1833 from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, and G. macrurus, known from the Purbeck Limestone of the UK. Ctenochasma and Gnathosaurus are ctenochasmatoids, Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe and Solnhofen fauna.

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Huanhepterus

Huanhepterus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now Qingyang, Gansu, China. Ctenochasma and Huanhepterus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Kepodactylus

Kepodactylus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States. Ctenochasma and Kepodactylus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.

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List of pterosaur genera

This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms.

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Moganopterus

Moganopterus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China. Ctenochasma and Moganopterus are ctenochasmatoids.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is a behavior in some non-human animals characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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Philippe Taquet

Philippe Taquet (born 25 April 1940 Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.

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Plataleorhynchus

Plataleorhynchus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods (Tithonian to Berriasian stages) of what is now the Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England. Ctenochasma and Plataleorhynchus are ctenochasmatoids and Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Europe.

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Pterodactyloidea

Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáktylos) "finger") is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.

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Pterodactylus

Pterodactylus is a genus of extinct pterosaurs. Ctenochasma and Pterodactylus are Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe and Solnhofen fauna.

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Pterodaustro

Pterodaustro is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America. Ctenochasma and Pterodaustro are ctenochasmatoids.

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Pterosaur

Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.

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Purbeck Group

The Purbeck Group is an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in south-east England.

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Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor.

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Scaphognathus

Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. Ctenochasma and Scaphognathus are Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe.

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Scleral Ring

The scleral ring is a hardened ring of plates, often derived from bone, that is found in the eyes of many animals in several groups of vertebrates.

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Skua

The skuas are a group of predatory seabirds with seven species forming the genus Stercorarius, the only genus in the family Stercorariidae.

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Solnhofen Limestone

The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk, formally known as the Altmühltal Formation, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies.

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Spoonbill

Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds.

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Timeline of pterosaur research

This timeline of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions of pterosaurs, the famed flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenochasma

Also known as C. gracile, C. roemeri, C. taqueti, Ctenochasma elegans, Ctenochasma gracile, Ctenochasma roemeri, Ctenochasma taqueti, Ornithocephalus brevirostris, Ptenodracon, Pterodactylus brevirostris, Pterodactylus elegans.

Ctenochasma, the Glossary

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See also

Ctenochasmatoids

Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Europe

Fossil taxa described in 1852

Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe

References