Pterosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Candeleros Formation of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: Ichnotaxonomic and palaeoecological …

AM Heredia, I Díaz-Martínez, PJ Pazos… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
New pterosaur tracks from the Cenomanian Candeleros Formation (Neuquén Basin) have
been discovered in the Aguada de Tuco locality, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina …

Cretaceous pterosaur history, diversity and extinction

DM Martill, RE Smith - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Pterosaurs, the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, dominated Mesozoic skies from the
Late Triassic to the end Cretaceous, a span of around 154 Myr (∼ 220–66 Ma). They …

The makers of Rhamphichnus ispp. reinterpreted as lepidosaurian and crocodilian, not pterosaurian

AFJ Wroblewski - Geobios, 2023 - Elsevier
Three ichnospecies of the Late Jurassic trace fossil genus Rhamphichnus were first
described and interpreted as the walking tracks of non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs like …

New Pterosaur Tracks from the Hwasun Seoyuri Tracksite (Turonian) of South Korea: Implications for their Ecological Niche and Habitat

J Jung, M Huh - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024 - Elsevier
Pterosaurs are powered flight vertebrates that first emerged in the Late Triassic and
persisted until the end of the Cretaceous. Recent studies on the ecological niches and …

[HTML][HTML] The Middle–Upper Jurassic dinosaur-pterosaur fauna in Shandong Province, China: Evidence from ichnology

LD **ng, MG Lockley, BL Tong, H Klein, C Liu… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tracks previously examined between 2002 and 2015 from an incompletely-studied, and
now partially lost tracksite site in the Santai Formation of Shandong Province were restudied …

Ichnotaxonomic and morphological differentiation in pterosaur tracks using Geometric Morphometric analysis: A case study on Pteraichnus manus tracks from …

J Jung, H Jo, M Kim, M Huh - Cretaceous Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Pteraichnus is the most reported pterosaur ichnotaxa and the taxon with the largest number
of reported ichnospecies. However, most ichnospecies of Pteraichnus are restricted to the …

First deciphering of large pterosaur footprints and their trackmaker in the Junggar Basin, China

Y Li, X Wang, S Jiang, J Song - Cretaceous Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Pterosaur footprints are important trace fossils for understanding the ecological habits of
pterosaurs, and they are extremely rare worldwide. Within the Lower Cretaceous of the …

Cretaceous turtle tracks from central and southern Mexico

E Jiménez-Hidalgo, R Guerrero-Arenas - Journal of South American Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Turtle tracks are relatively common in Laurasia during the Mesozoic. In Mexico, Cretaceous
turtle tracks have been reported in Coahuila, Zacatecas, and Puebla. Here we describe 20 …

[PDF][PDF] GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC APPROACH TO ESTABLISH PHYLOGENETIC AFFINITIES OF ENIGMATIC PTEROSAUR SPECIMENS FROM THE LOWER …

C Yun - Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae, 2024 - actapalrom.geo-paleontologica.org
Fragmentary but scientifically important pterosaur fossils have been reported in Lower
Cretaceous strata such as the **ju and Hasandong formations of South Korea. Recently …

[PDF][PDF] Quantifying pterosaur launch

BW Griffin, BW Griffin - Geological Society, London …, 1996 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
Launch is the main constraint on size in modern flying animals. Extinct Mesozoic flying
vertebrates, the pterosaurs, have reached sizes considered impossible for modern volant …