Re: [dinosaur] New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology papers

Ben Creisler
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David W. E. Hone, Mark P. Witton and David M. Martill (2018)
New perspectives on pterosaur palaeobiology.
From: Hone, D. W. E., Witton, M. P. & Martill, D. M. (eds) 2018. New
Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology. Geological Society, London,
Special Publications 455: 1-6
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Mark P. Witton (2018)
Pterosaurs in Mesozoic food webs: a review of fossil evidence.
From: Hone, D. W. E., Witton, M. P. & Martill, D. M. (eds) 2018. New
Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology. Geological Society, London,
Special Publications 455: 7-23
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Rachel A. Frigot (2018)
Pelvic musculature of Vectidraco daisymorrisae and consequences for
pterosaur locomotion.
From: Hone, D. W. E., Witton, M. P. & Martill, D. M. (eds) 2018. New
Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology. Geological Society, London,
Special Publications 455: 45-55
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 8:42 AM Ben Creisler <[email protected]> wrote:

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> A new publication with advance papers online (more to come):
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> Edited by D. W. E. Hone, M. P. Witton and D. M. Martill (2017)
> Geological Society, London SP455
> New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_online-2Dfirst_455&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=WfWBIZKXf3M5-nwFNM-JjhW0TfpGeQqeGgiAF-MyQds&e= 
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> The field of pterosaur research in palaeontology continues its rapid
> growth and diversification that began in recent decades. This volume is a
> collection of papers on these extinct flying reptiles that includes work on
> their taxonomy, behaviour, ecology and relationships.
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> Colin Palmer (2017)
> Inferring the properties of the pterosaur wing membrane.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.4
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_16_SP455.4.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=OkdnhHrj604DHTeDTGFcqlzOt-grR57m4GAxR23HzTA&e= 
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> The preservation of the wing membrane of pterosaurs is very poor and the
> available fossil evidence does not allow its properties to be
> reconstructed. In contrast, the fossil record for the wing bones is
> relatively good and the advent of CT scanning has made it possible to build
> high-fidelity structural models of the wing spar. The bending strength of
> the wing spar of a 6 m wingspan ornithocheirid pterosaur is used to infer
> the likely membrane tension. The tensions required to suppress aeroelastic
> flutter and to minimize ballooning of the membrane under flight loads are
> also estimated. All three estimates are of similar magnitude and imply that
> the membrane must have contained high-modulus material, supporting the view
> that the reinforcing aktinofibrils were keratinous.
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> Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia (2017)
> A wing metacarpal from Italy and its implications for latest Cretaceous
> pterosaur diversity.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.1
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_16_SP455.1.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=Q64cBmIKcXqPHzVwJJLIYLqfVlK0daNMDZZudc3pTXY&e= 
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> An incomplete bone from the latest Cretaceous dinosaur site of Villaggio
> del Pescatore (Trieste Province, Italy) is definitely a wing metacarpal of
> a pterodactyloid pterosaur. It represents the only Italian Cretaceous
> pterosaur remains known, as well as the only pterosaur from the Adriatic
> Carbonate Platform. With an estimated minimum length of 136 mm, it belongs
> to a relatively small individual relative to the standard of latest
> Cretaceous pterodactyloids. It is not as elongated and gracile as
> azhdarchid wing metacarpals and shows a mix of features found in Pteranodon
> and some more basal pterodactyloids. It is one of the very few remains of
> putative non-azhdarchid pterosaurs from the upper Campanian–Maastrichtian
> worldwide and supports the view that the Azhdarchidae were not the only
> pterosaur clade existing during latest Cretaceous times.
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> Mark P. Witton (2017)
> Pterosaurs in Mesozoic food webs: a review of fossil evidence.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.3
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_17_SP455.3.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=y4l7p5-pUpTCIK1L_NxCRMLHGxRJlontmIR2Fir-FQY&e= 
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> Understanding the ecological roles of pterosaurs is a challenging pursuit,
> but one aided by a growing body of fossil evidence for their dietary
> preferences and roles as food sources for other species. Pterosaur foraging
> behaviour is represented by preserved gut content, stomach regurgitates,
> coprolites and feeding traces. Pterosaurs being eaten by other species are
> recorded by tooth marks and teeth embedded in their fossil bones, consumer
> gut content and regurgitate, and their preservation entangled with
> predatory animals. This palaeoecological record has improved in recent
> years, but remains highly selective. The Jurassic rhamphorhynchid
> Rhamphorhynchus, Cretaceous ornithocheiroid Pteranodon and azhdarchid
> pterosaurs currently have the most substantial palaeoecological records.
> The food species and consumers of these taxa conform to lifestyle
> predictions for these groups. Rhamphorhynchus and Pteranodon ate and were
> eaten by aquatic species, matching expectations of these animals as
> sea-going, perhaps partly aquatic species. Possible azhdarchid pterosaur
> foraging traces alongside pterosaur tracks, and evidence that these animals
> were eaten by dinosaurs and Crocodyliformes, are consistent with hypotheses
> that azhdarchids foraged and lived in terrestrial settings. Fossil evidence
> of pterosaur palaeoecology remains rare: researchers are strongly
> encouraged to put specimens showing details of dietary preferences,
> foraging strategies or interactions with other animals on record.
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> S. Christopher Bennett and Paul Penkalski (2017)
> Waves of bone deposition on the rostrum of the pterosaur Pteranodon.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.2
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_21_SP455.2.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=iI3PVKdQbyGVSLOrx9Vty-XqWtHrWY7abKYdHJsGtIk&e= 
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> Four specimens of the pterosaur Pteranodon exhibit patterns of irregular
> alternating light and dark bands on the lateral surfaces of the upper jaw
> anterior to the nasoantorbital fenestra. Examinations reveal that the
> maxilla and premaxilla of Pteranodon consisted of two thin sheets of bone
> interconnected by regularly spaced septa with the spaces contained within
> presumably pneumatized, resulting in a structure analogous to modern
> honeycomb sandwich panels. The alternating light and dark bands resulted
> from waves of bone deposition moving anteriorly along the external surface
> of the lateral sheet of bone and laying down thin laminae of new bone while
> bone was simultaneously resorbed from the internal surface of the lateral
> sheet to maintain its thickness. The specimens that exhibit the bands were
> immature males and no banding was found in mature specimens or immature
> females. Therefore, the presence of the bands in immature males is
> interpreted as correlated with the enlargement and reshaping of the rostrum
> as males approached and attained sexual maturity.
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> David M. Martill and Markus Moser (2017)
> Topotype specimens probably attributable to the giant azhdarchid pterosaur
> Arambourgiania philadelphiae (Arambourg 1959).
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.6
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_17_SP455.6.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=85XjZ6qgD4fm2rbV-X1Ch34-19_cjsS-fH54QGCiUKw&e= 
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> Six specimens accessioned to the Bavarian State Collection for
> Palaeontology and Geology in Munich, Germany, in 1966 are identified as
> coming from a gigantic pterodactyloid pterosaur. The previously undescribed
> material was obtained in 1955 by Jean Otto Haas and compares favourably in
> size with the type specimen of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)
> azhdarchid pterosaur Arambourgiania philadelphiae (Arambourg 1959) from the
> same locality/region. The material represents fragments of two cervical
> vertebrae, a neural arch, a left femur, a ?radius, and a metacarpal IV and
> bones of problematic identity, and does not duplicate the type material of
> Arambourgiania. The timing of its collection and its locality of Ruseifa,
> Jordan suggest it might pertain to the same individual as the holotype.
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> Stanislas Rigal, David M. Martill, and Steven C. Sweetman (2017)
> A new pterosaur specimen from the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation
> (Cretaceous, Valanginian) of southern England and a review of Lonchodectes
> sagittirostris (Owen 1874).
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.5
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_17_SP455.5.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=CsVlgowsq2H4Yw2PZOmFuJHHMOWUKZXhzsyR4hRY18o&e= 
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> A specimen of a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Upper Tunbridge Wells
> Sand Formation (Early Cretaceous, Valanginian) of Bexhill, East Sussex,
> southern England is described. It comprises a small fragment of jaw with
> teeth, a partial vertebral column and associated incomplete wing bones. The
> juxtaposition of the bones suggests that the specimen was originally more
> complete and articulated. Its precise phylogenetic relationships are
> uncertain but it represents an indeterminate lonchodectid with affinities
> to Lonchodectes sagittirostris (Owen 1874) which is reviewed here, and may
> belong in Lonchodraco Rodrigues & Kellner 2013. This specimen is only the
> third record of pterosaurs from this formation.
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> Donald M. Henderson (2017)
> Using three-dimensional, digital models of pterosaur skulls for the
> investigation of their relative bite forces and feeding styles.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.9
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_22_SP455.9.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=h4qGLEhZ8aQEE5Q5SBtlkwLV0gTdhZrsra5PU89vxhY&e= 
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> Simple, three-dimensional, digital models of the crania and mandibles of
> 22 pterosaurs – 13 pterodactyloids and nine non-pterodactyloids
> (‘rhamphorhynchoids’) – were generated to investigate gross-level
> mechanical aspects of the skulls as they would related to feeding behaviour
> such as bite force and speed of jaw motions. The key parameter was the
> determination of second moments of area of the mid-muzzle region and the
> computation of the bending moment relative to the occiput. The shorter,
> stockier skulls of basal ‘rhamphorhynchoids’ were the strongest for their
> size in terms of potential resistance to dorso-ventral bending, and this
> finding correlates with their robust dentitions. More derived
> ‘rhamphorhynchoids’ showed the start of a trend towards weaker skulls, but
> faster jaw adduction was interpreted to be an adaptation for the snatching
> of small prey. Pterodactyloids continued the trend to lengthen the skull
> and to reduce its cross-sectional area, resulting in less stiff skulls, but
> more rapid opening and closing of the jaws. Changes in the rear of the
> skulls and the development of coronoid eminences on the mandibles of all
> the pterodactyloids are correlated with the reduction in bite force and a
> concomitant increase in jaw closing speed.
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> D. W. E. Hone, S. Jiang, and X. Xu (2017)
> A taxonomic revision of Noripterus complicidens and Asian members of the
> Dsungaripteridae.
> Geological Society SP455 New Perspectives on Pterosaur Palaeobiology
> (advance online publication)
> doi:10.1144/SP455.8
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sp.lyellcollection.org_content_early_2017_02_22_SP455.8.abstract&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=NFeDXJX2kw09prp50ds7t1-FBBYdX2UaShqx9XpiWRQ&s=F3aeYc8pZNETGx3j4M3SZAJO-_nft9zCX886vjST_fA&e= 
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> After being inaccessible for a number of years, the holotype and other
> specimens of the dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur Noripterus
> complicidens are again available for study. Numerous taxa assigned to the
> Dsungaripteridae have been described since the erection of Noripterus, but
> with limited comparisons to this genus. Based on the information from
> Young's original material here we revise the taxonomic identity of N.
> complicidens and that of other Asian dsungaripterids. We conclude that N.
> complicidens is likely to be distinct from the material recovered from
> Mongolia and this latter material should be placed in a separate genus.
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