Aymberedactylus cearensis
By Joschua Knüppe, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.
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Name: Aymberedactylus cearensis
Name Meaning: Small Lizard Finger
First Described: 2016
Described By: Pêgas et al.
Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Eupterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiroidea, Azhdarchoidea, Tapejaromorpha, Tapejaridae
Aymberedactylus is a recently descrbed genus of Tapejarid - the group of Azhdarchoid pterosaurs with bony crests and large openings in the fronts of their skulls. Aymberedactylus itself is known from a lower jaw, so even though it probably had a crest like other Tapejarids, it’s hard to determine exactly what that crest would have looked like. it did have a crest on its chin, as well, like in other Tapejarids. It probably had a wingspan of about 2 meters, and it was found in the Crato Formation of Brazil, living in the Albian age of the Early Cretaceous, about 108 million years ago. The one known fossil of it isn’t completely fused, so the individual was probably a subadult and not fully grown. It lived alongside a warm water lagoon, along with many other pterosaurs.
Sources:
http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/aymberedactylus.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymberedactylus
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