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Eopteranodon, the Glossary

Eopteranodon (meaning "dawn Pteranodon (toothless wing)") is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao City, Liaoning, China.^[1]

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Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia
Tapejaromorphs

Alexander Kellner

Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner (born September 26, 1961) is a Brazilian geologist and paleontologist who is a leading expert in the field of studying pterosaurs.

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Aptian

The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.

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Aymberedactylus

Aymberedactylus (meaning "small lizard finger") is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Eopteranodon and Aymberedactylus are tapejaromorphs.

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Azhdarchidae (from the Persian word azhdar, اژدر, a dragon-like creature in Persian mythology) is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the Late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebra apparently from an azhdarchid is known from the Early Cretaceous as well (late Berriasian age, about 140 million years ago).

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Bakonydraco

Bakonydraco is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (Santonian stage) of what is now the Csehbánya Formation of the Bakony Mountains, Iharkút, Veszprém, western Hungary. Eopteranodon and Bakonydraco are fossil taxa described in 2005 and tapejaromorphs.

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Beipiao

Beipiao is a city in Chaoyang prefecture, Liaoning province, in Northeast China.

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Bennettazhia

Bennettazhia is a genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur which lived during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous from what is now the Hudspeth Formation of the state of Oregon in the United States. Eopteranodon and Bennettazhia are tapejaromorphs.

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Caiuajara

Caiuajara is an extinct genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian to Albian stages) of Brazil. Eopteranodon and Caiuajara are tapejaromorphs.

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Caupedactylus

Caupedactylus is an extinct genus of tapejarid azhdarchoid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous period (Albian stage) of what is now the Romualdo Formation of the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil. Eopteranodon and Caupedactylus are tapejaromorphs.

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Chaoyangopteridae

Chaoyangopteridae (or chaoyangopterids) is a family of pterosaurs within the larger group Azhdarchoidea.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Europejara

Europejara is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of Spain. Eopteranodon and Europejara are tapejaromorphs.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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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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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Keresdrakon

Keresdrakon is an extinct genus of azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Goio-Erê Formation of Brazil, which dates back to the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian-Albian stages), 125 to 100.5 million years ago. Eopteranodon and Keresdrakon are tapejaromorphs.

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Lü Junchang

Lü Junchang (1965 – 9 October 2018) was a Chinese palaeontologist and professor at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.

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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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Nemicolopterus

Nemicolopterus is a dubious genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur, based on a very small specimen described as the smallest known "adult" pterosaur to date. Eopteranodon and Nemicolopterus are early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia and tapejaromorphs.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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Pteranodon

Pteranodon; from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pteron 'wing') and ἀνόδων (anodous, anodontos 'toothless') is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over.

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Pteranodontia

Pteranodontia is an extinct group of ornithocheiroid pterodactyloid pterosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (Coniacian to Maastrichtian stages) of North America and Africa.

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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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Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America.

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Sinopterus

Sinopterus (meaning "Chinese wing") is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. Eopteranodon and Sinopterus are early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia and tapejaromorphs.

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Tapejara wellnhoferi

Tapejara (from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the ways") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Santana Formation, dating to about 127 to 112 million years ago). Eopteranodon and Tapejara wellnhoferi are tapejaromorphs.

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Tapejaridae

Tapejaridae (from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the ways") are a family of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period. Eopteranodon and Tapejaridae are tapejaromorphs.

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Tapejaromorpha

Tapejaromorpha is a group of pterosaurs within the clade Azhdarchoidea. Eopteranodon and Tapejaromorpha are tapejaromorphs.

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Thalassodromeus

Thalassodromeus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, about a hundred million years ago. Eopteranodon and Thalassodromeus are tapejaromorphs.

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Thalassodrominae

Thalassodrominae or Thalassodromidae (meaning "sea runners", due to previous misconceptions of skimming behavior; they are now thought to be terrestrial predators) is a group of azhdarchoid pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period. Eopteranodon and Thalassodrominae are tapejaromorphs.

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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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Tupandactylus

Tupandactylus (meaning "Tupan finger", in reference to the Tupi thunder god) is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Eopteranodon and Tupandactylus are tapejaromorphs.

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Tupuxuara

Tupuxuara is a genus of large, crested, and toothless pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period (Albian stage) of what is now the Romualdo Formation of the Santana Group, Brazil, about 125 to 112 million years ago. Eopteranodon and Tupuxuara are tapejaromorphs.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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Wingspan

The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip.

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Yixian Formation

The Yixian Formation (formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous.

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References

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

Also known as Eopteranodon lii, Eopteranodon yixianensis.

Eopteranodon, the Glossary

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See also

Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia

Tapejaromorphs

References