New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications

作者：Lue Junchang; Azuma Yoichi; Dong Zhiming; Bar**old Rinchen; Kobayashi Yoshitsugu; Lee Yuong Nam

来源：Geological Magazine, 2009, 146(5): 690-700.

DOI：10.1017/S0016756809006414

• Pterosauria
• Dsungaripteroidea
• Early Cretaceous
• Tsagan-Tsab Formation
• Tatal
• Mongolia

New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Tatal, western Mongolia, allows the diagnoses of Dsungaripteridae and Noripterus to be amended. All pterosaurs found at Tatal belong to Dsungaripteridae (either Dsungaripterus or Noripterus). The name Phobetor is a junior synonym of Noripterus. The differing shapes of the anterior tips of skulls, differing tooth morphologies and the coexistence of both Dsungaripterus and Noripterus may imply that they occupied distinct ecological niches.

• 出版日期2009-9
• 单位中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所; 中国地质科学院