#gladocephaloideus

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Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis

By Joschua Knüppe, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.

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Name: Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis

Name Meaning: Sword Head Form

First Described: 2012

Described By: Lü et al. 

Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Archaeopterodactyloidea, Euctenochasmatia, Ctenochasmatoidea, Ctenochasmatidae

Gladocephaloideus is a Ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Jingangshan Bed of the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, living about 121 million years ago, in the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous. It is known from a complete skull, lower jaws, neck, and part of a hindlimb, and a juvenile has also been referred to it from an almost complete skeleton from the Jiufotang Formation. The original specimen was originally thought to be an adult, but later found to also be from a juvenile. 

By Junchang Lü, Martin Kundrát, Caizhi Shen, CC BY 2.5

Gladocephaloideus had an elongated skull, with small skull openings, and with sharp pointed teeth. It also was concave and it didn’t appear to have a crest, though of course, that could just be because the original specimen was that of a juvenile. It probably ate mainly fish. 

Sources:

http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/gladocephaloideus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladocephaloideus

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