An Unusual Pterosaur Specimen (Pterodactyloidea, ?Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil, and the Evolution of the Pterodactyloid Palate

Felipe L. Pinheiro; Cesar L. Schultz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050088

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An Unusual Pterosaur Specimen (Pterodactyloidea, ?Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil, and the Evolution of the Pterodactyloid Palate

Felipe L. Pinheiro ,

* E-mail: fl_pinheiro@yahoo.com.br

Affiliations Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, IGeo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany
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Cesar L. Schultz

Affiliation Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, IGeo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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An Unusual Pterosaur Specimen (Pterodactyloidea, ?Azhdarchoidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation of Brazil, and the Evolution of the Pterodactyloid Palate

Felipe L. Pinheiro,
Cesar L. Schultz

Published: November 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050088

About the Authors

Felipe L. Pinheiro

* E-mail: fl_pinheiro@yahoo.com.br

Affiliations Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, IGeo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich, Germany

Cesar L. Schultz

Affiliation Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, IGeo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Avenida Bento Gonçalves, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FLP. Analyzed the data: FLP CLS. Wrote the paper: FLP.

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