- (Andres, 2021). This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group, with all
other pterodactyloids...
- 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...
-
Clark & Xu, 2014. This
study found the two
traditional groupings of
ctenochasmatoids and kin as an
early branching group (represented as the group...
- the
length of the tibia),
while filter-feeding
pterosaurs like the
ctenochasmatoids had very
large feet (69% of
tibial length in Pterodactylus, 84% in...
- Hesperornis, Ichthyornis,
juvenile caimans, some
cetaceans and even some
ctenochasmatoid pterosaurs.
Thomas J. C.
Bertin et al,
Current Perspectives on Tooth...
-
having up-turned jaws and
powerful jaw and
tongue musculature.
Other ctenochasmatoids lack these, and are now
instead thought to have been spoonbill-like...
-
traditionally thought of as
archaeopterodactyloids closely related to the
ctenochasmatoids may have been more
closely related to the more
advanced dsungaripteroids...
-
classification schemes,
azhdarchoids were
considered to be closely-related to
ctenochasmatoids like
Pterodactylus and Ctenochasma. However, most
researchers no longer...
-
skull has
several features otherwise seen only in
later diverging ctenochasmatoids, such as a nearly-circular orbit, a
round posterior region of the skull...
-
Balaenognathus (meaning "bowhead
whale jaw") is an
extinct genus of
ctenochasmatid pterosaurs from the Late Jur****ic
Torleite Formation of Bavaria, Germany...
