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Pterosaurs by Júlia d'Oliveira.
Lacusovagus magnifices /// Crato Formation (Ceará, Brazil)
Continuing in on our collection of extinct fauna we have another pterosaur!
Ludodactylus (lake wanderer) is a azhdarchoid pterosaur know from a partial upper jaw fossil.
Coloration based on the jabiru stork (tuiuiuí)
Lacusovagus magnificens
By Joschua Knüppe, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.
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Name: Lacusovagus magnificens
Name Meaning: Lake Wanderer
First Described: 2008
Described By: Witton
Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Eupterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiroidea, Azhdarchoidea, Neoazhdarchia, Neopterodactyloidea, Chaoyangopteridae
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Lacusovagus is another Chaoyangopterid, but interestingly enough this one comes from the Crato Formation of Ceara, Brazil, dating to the mid-late Aptian, early Cretaceous (more or less 120-122 million years ago). It’s only known from a nearly-flattened skull, but there are Chaoyangopterid neck vertebrae from the same formation that may also belong to it. Its jaws were long, toothless, and crestless. The skull was unusually wide, with “zig-zagging” sides, and probably had a fairly deep nasoantorbital fenestra behind the beak. Its wingspan is estimated at 4.1 meters, making it the largest Chaoyangopterid and one of the largest pterosaurs of the Crato Formation.
Sources:
https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/lacusovagus.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00811.x
http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/455/1/195
■Brazilian extinct fauna!■
Animals included:
Ludodactylus/ Irritator/ Santanaraptor/ Lacusovagus/ Mirischia/ Cladocyclus
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