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39 relations: Bavaria, Beipiaopterus, Calcaires tâchetés, Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, Cretaceous, Ctenochasmatidae, Diurnality, Elanodactylus, Eosipterus, Feilongus, Filter feeder, France, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, Gegepterus, Genus, Germany, Gnathosaurus, Huanhepterus, Kepodactylus, Late Jurassic, List of pterosaur genera, Moganopterus, Niche differentiation, Nocturnality, Philippe Taquet, Plataleorhynchus, Pterodactyloidea, Pterodactylus, Pterodaustro, Pterosaur, Purbeck Group, Richard Lydekker, Scaphognathus, Sclerotic ring, Skua, Solnhofen Limestone, Species, Spoonbill, Timeline of pterosaur research.
Bavaria
Bavaria (Bavarian and Bayern), officially the Free State of Bavaria (Freistaat Bayern), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner.
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Beipiaopterus
Beipiaopterus is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur (flying reptile) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Aptian) in the People's Republic of China.
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Calcaires tâchetés
The Calcaires tâchetés is a geologic formation in France.
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Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (3 September 1801 – 2 April 1869), known as Hermann von Meyer, was a German palaeontologist.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Ctenochasmatidae
Ctenochasmatidae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea.
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Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night.
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Elanodactylus
Elanodactylus (meaning "Kite finger") is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous (early Aptian) Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.
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Eosipterus
Eosipterus is an extinct genus of pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China.
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Feilongus
Feilongus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatoid or ornithocheiroid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China.
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Filter feeder
Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Friedrich Adolph Roemer
Friedrich Adolph Roemer (15 April 1809 – 25 November 1869), German geologist, was born at Hildesheim, in the Kingdom of Westphalia.
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Gegepterus
Gegepterus was a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Gnathosaurus
Gnathosaurus (meaning 'jawed lizard') is a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaurs containing two species: Gnathosaurus subulatus, named in 1833 from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, and Gnathosaurus macrurus, known from the Purbeck Limestone of the UK.
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Huanhepterus
Huanhepterus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic-age Huachihuanhe Formation of Qingyang, Gansu, China.
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Kepodactylus
Kepodactylus is an extinct genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Colorado, United States.
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Late Jurassic
The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.
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List of pterosaur genera
This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms.
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Moganopterus
Moganopterus is an extinct genus of boreopterid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China.
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Niche differentiation
The term niche differentiation (synonymous with niche segregation, niche separation and niche partitioning), as it applies to the field of ecology, refers to the process by which competing species use the environment differently in a way that helps them to coexist.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Philippe Taquet
Philippe Taquet (b. April 25, 1940 Saint-Quentin, Aisne) is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.
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Plataleorhynchus
Plataleorhynchus was a genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Tithonian-Berriasian-age Upper Jurassic or Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England.
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Pterodactyloidea
Pterodactyloidea (derived from the Greek words πτερόν (pterón, for usual ptéryx) "wing", and δάκτυλος (dáctylos) "finger" meaning "winged finger", "wing-finger" or "finger-wing") is one of the two traditional suborders of pterosaurs ("wing lizards"), and contains the most derived members of this group of flying reptiles.
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Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus (from the πτεροδάκτυλος, pterodaktulos, meaning "winged finger") is an extinct flying reptile genus of pterosaurs, whose members are popularly known as pterodactyls. It is currently thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, the first pterosaur species to be named and identified as a flying reptile.
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Pterodaustro
Pterodaustro is a genus of Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America, which lived 105 million years ago.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from the Greek πτερόσαυρος,, meaning "winged lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.
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Purbeck Group
The Purbeck Group is an Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) in south-east England.
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Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
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Scaphognathus
Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic.
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Sclerotic ring
Sclerotic rings are rings of bone found in the eyes of several groups of vertebrate animals, except for mammals and crocodilians.
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Skua
The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.
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Solnhofen Limestone
The Solnhofen Plattenkalk, or Solnhofen Limestone, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spoonbill
Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds.
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Timeline of pterosaur research
This timeline of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions of pterosaurs, the famed flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era.
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C. gracile, C. roemeri, C. taqueti, Ctenochasma elegans, Ctenochasma gracile, Ctenochasma roemeri, Ctenochasma taqueti, Ornithocephalus brevirostris, Ptenodracon, Pterodactylus brevirostris, Pterodactylus elegans.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenochasma
