- wings, long necks, and
highly specialized teeth. The
earliest known ctenochasmatoid remains date to the Late Jur****ic
Kimmeridgian age. Previously, a fossil...
- Hesperornis, Ichthyornis,
juvenile caimans, some
cetaceans and even some
ctenochasmatoid pterosaurs.
Thomas J. C.
Bertin et al,
Current Perspectives on Tooth...
- were
presumably used for
filter feeding. The
bizarre Late Jur****ic
ctenochasmatoid Cycnorhamphus had a jaw with
teeth only at the tips, with bent jaws...
-
Cycnorhamphus (meaning "swan beak") is a
genus of
gallodactylid ctenochasmatoid pterosaur from the Late Jur****ic
period of
France and Germany,
about 152...
- (Andres, 2021). This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group, with all
other pterodactyloids...
-
Aurorazhdarcho is an
extinct genus of
ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jur****ic
period (early
Tithonian stage) of what is now Bavaria, southern...
- the
length of the tibia),
while filter-feeding
pterosaurs like the
ctenochasmatoids had very
large feet (69% of
tibial length in Pterodactylus, 84% in...
-
ornithocheiroid clade. This
analysis confirmed that
Feilongus was in fact a
ctenochasmatoid, but one
closely related to
Gnathosaurus rather than Gallodactylus...
- of
herons – and dactylus,
meaning "finger") is an
extinct genus of
ctenochasmatoid pterosaur known from the Late Jur****ic
Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria...
-
having up-turned jaws and
powerful jaw and
tongue musculature.
Other ctenochasmatoids lack these, and are now
instead thought to have been spoonbill-like...
