Species
Valid Extinct

Tupuxuara longicristatus

Kellner and Campos 1988

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
Neoazhdarchia Unranked clade
Tapejaroidea Superfamily
Thalassodromidae Family
Tupuxuara Genus
Tupuxuara longicristatus Species
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇧🇷 Brazil
2
Geological formations
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
A. W. A. Kellner and D. d. A. Campos. 1988. Sobre um novo pterossauro com crista sagital da Bacia do Araripe, Cretáceo Inferior do nordeste do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 60(4):459-469
Bibliography (2)
D. M. Martill and D. Naish. 2006. Cranial crest development in the azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly. Palaeontology 49(4):925-941 DOI ↗
A. W. A. Kellner and D. d. A. Campos. 1988. Sobre um novo pterossauro com crista sagital da Bacia do Araripe, Cretáceo Inferior do nordeste do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 60(4):459-469