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- Pterodaustro (from Gr**** pteron, 'wing' and Latin auster, 'south') is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America. Its fossil...
- These teeth are thought to have been used for filter-feeding, the genus Pterodaustro for example, had a long snout and its lower jaws curve strongly upwards...
- Ctenochasmatidae used combs of numerous needle-like teeth for filter feeding; Pterodaustro could have over a thousand bristle-like teeth. Dsungaripteridae covered...
- multiple slender teeth, clearly well adapted to trap prey. However, only Pterodaustro showcases a proper pumping mechanism, having up-turned jaws and powerful...
- evidence points to the existence of rookery-like colonies in the pterosaur Pterodaustro. The term rookery was also borrowed as a name for dense slum housing...
- toothy ctenochasmatids (which include filter-feeders like Ctenochasma and Pterodaustro), but this classification is largely obsolete. Currently it is widely...
- least some pterosaurs seemingly had gizzards. The most notable cases are Pterodaustro (inferred via gastroliths) and Rhamphorhynchus (directly preserved)....
- 2003. Unwin defined the group as the most recent common ancestor of Pterodaustro guinazui and Quetzalcoatlus northropi, and all its descendants. This...
- Spoon, Dekopin, Tori, Marimo, Mango, Polo, & Pyou The park's flock of Pterodaustro that reside in the aviary. Polo was injured by Pyou after trying to steal...
- units Gardini et al., 2009, p.554 Loma del Pterodaustro fossil site at Fossilworks.org Loma del Pterodaustro at Fossilworks.org Gardini, Carlos; Rivarola...