[dinosaur] Ferrodraco, new ornithocheirid pterosaur from Cretaceous of Australia (free pdf)

Ben Creisler
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A new paper in open access:

Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov.


Adele H. Pentland, Stephen F. Poropat, Travis R. Tischler, Trish Sloan,
Robert A. Elliott, Harry A. Elliott, Judy A. Elliott & David A. Elliott
(2019)
Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from
the Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia
Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 13454
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The Australian pterosaur record is poor by world standards, comprising
fewer than 20 fragmentary specimens. Herein, we describe the new genus and
species Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., based on the most complete
pterosaur specimen ever found in Australia, and the first reported from the
Winton Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian). The presence of premaxillary
and mandibular crests, and spike-shaped teeth with subcircular bases,
enable Ferrodraco to be referred to Anhangueria. Ferrodraco can be
distinguished from all other anhanguerian pterosaurs based on two dental
characters: the first premaxillary and mandibular tooth pairs are small;
and the fourth–seventh tooth pairs are smaller than the third and eighth
ones. Ferrodraco was included in a phylogenetic analysis of Pterosauria and
resolved as the sister taxon to Mythunga camara (upper Albian Toolebuc
Formation, Australia), with that clade occupying the most derived position
within Ornithocheiridae. Ornithocheirus simus (Albian Cambridge Greensand,
England), Coloborhynchus clavirostris (Valanginian Hastings Sands,
England), and Tropeognathus mesembrinus (upper Aptian–lower Albian Romualdo
Formation, Brazil) were resolved as successive sister taxa, which suggests
that ornithocheirids were cosmopolitan during the Albian–Cenomanian.
Furthermore, the stratigraphic age of Ferrodraco lentoni (Cenomanian–lower
Turonian) implies that anhanguerians might have survived later in Australia
than elsewhere.

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