Quetzalcoatlus is the largest flying organism ever known and one of the most familiar pterosaurs to the ... addressed here through a full morphological description of Quetzalcoatlus and the other pterosaur material of Big Bend ... The first reported material was described and named Quetzalcoatlus northropi by Douglas Lawson in 1975, but in ... with depositional environment. The holotype of the giant Quetzalcoatlus northropi and six other giant specimens referred to ... diagnosable natural group erected as the new species Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni. A moderate-sized partial skull and cervical ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Matthew Brown, J.C. Sagebiel, Brian Andres,
... animals for decades. The announcement of the giant Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by graduate student Douglas Lawson ... represent an animal substantially smaller than Q. northropi, Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni Andres and Langston, 2021—historically referred to as Quetzalcoatlus sp. These and subsequent field expeditions from several ... limits only the Javelina Formation material to pterosaurs. Quetzalcoatlus northropi is known within Big Bend National Park ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... Fourteen species are currently included in the Azhdarchidae: Quetzalcoatlus northropi and Q. lawsoni are recovered as sister taxa in a monophyletic Quetzalcoatlus, with Arambourgiania philadelphiae, Hatzegopteryx thambema, a trichotomy with ... maggii clade are recovered as successive outgroups to Quetzalcoatlus in the Azhdarchidae. The previous azhdarchid species Montanazhdarcho ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Kevin Padian, James R. Cunningham, Wann Langston, John R. Conway,
... of the skeleton of the giant azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus. The neck had substantial dorsoventral mobility, and the ... bat-like restoration is unrealistic. On the ground, Quetzalcoatlus, like other ornithodirans, had an erect stance and ... the length of the glenoacetabular distance, except that Quetzalcoatlus (like other pterodactyloids) had a unique gait in ...
Tópico(s): Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Yusuke Goto, Ken Yoda, Henri Weimerskirch, Katsufumi Sato,
... sandersi and Argentavis magnificens) and pterosaurs (Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus) are thought to have used wind-dependent soaring ... sandersi used dynamic soaring, while A. magnificens and Quetzalcoatlus used thermal soaring. For Pteranodon, there is debate ... soaring. Conversely, the results for P. sandersi and Quetzalcoatlus were contrary to those from previous studies. P. sandersi used thermal soaring, and Quetzalcoatlus had a poor ability both in dynamic and ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2022 - Oxford University Press | PNAS Nexus
... Three pterosaur species are found here. Remains of Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, sp. nov., are concentrated in deposits of ... a likely food source for the slender-beaked Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni, sp. nov., which may have had a ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... comparison with more complete specimens of Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus, two large Cretaceous pterodactyloids. These two genera can ... size is intermediate between the largest Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus northropi. Diagnosis of a new family, Titanopterygiidae, is ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1984 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet, Stéphane Jouve, Mohamed Iarochène, Baâdi Bouya, Mbarek Amaghzaz,
... series neck vertebrae closely resemble those of azhdarchids Quetzalcoatlus and Azhdarcho in that they are elongate, with ... of the latest-known pterosaurs, approximately contemporaneous with Quetzalcoatlus .
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2003 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
... Dsungaripterus weii, Pteranodon longiceps, Pterodaustro guinazui, Pterodactylus sp., Quetzalcoatlus northropi, Tupuxuara longicristatus. The reliability of the mass ... The estimated mass for the largest pterosaur known, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, exceeds the previous highest estimates by more ...
Tópico(s): Optical measurement and interference techniques
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Alexander W. A. Kellner, Wann Langston,
ABSTRACT Numerous remains of the azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus sp., have been recovered over the last twenty years from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) rocks in Big Bend National Park in Trans-Pecos ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1996 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
... Brian Andres, Wann Langston Morphology and taxonomy of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1902 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
Philip J. Currie, Dale A. Russell,
... specimen demonstrates that the giant pterosaur is probably Quetzalcoatlus.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1982 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
... Thomas M. Lehman Habitat of the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea): a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1988 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
Phillip A. Murry, David A. Winkler, Louis L. Jacobs,
... of Texas Cretaceous faunas. The best known is Quetzalcoatlus northropi , from the Javelina Formation (Maastrichtian) of Big ...
Tópico(s): Avian ecology and behavior
1991 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Paleontology
... the family Azhdarchidae, and provisionally to the genus Quetzalcoatlus.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1992 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Éric Buffetaut, Dan Grigorescu, Zoltán Csiki‐Sava,
... is estimated to be close to that of Quetzalcoatlus northropi (≥12 m), but its skull is especially ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2003 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
... basal to the Campanian Zhejiangopterus and the Maastrichtian Quetzalcoatlus.
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS
... the discovery of the 10 m span azhdarchid Quetzalcoatlus northropi by D. Lawson in 1972. Subsequent fragmentary ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2010 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications
Attila Ősi, Éric Buffetaut, Edina Prondvai,
... premaxillary rostrum in Bakonydraco similar to that of Quetzalcoatlus and reveals that this rostrum was considerably thinner ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2011 - Elsevier BV | Cretaceous Research
Thomas M. Lehman, Fred W. McDowell, James N. Connelly,
... sites that have yielded remains of the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus, and above a site with petrified logs of ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2006 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Brian Andres, Timothy S. Myers,
... langstoni is recovered as a non-azhdarchid azhdarchoid, Quetzalcoatlus northropi as an azhdarchid, Alamodactylus byrdi as a ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2012 - Cambridge University Press | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Éric Buffetaut, Yves Laurent, Jean Le Lœuff, Michel Bilotte,
... the French Pyrenees. It resembles the vertebrae of Quetzalcoatlus , from the Maastrichtian of Texas, more than those ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1997 - Cambridge University Press | Geological Magazine
Se pone a prueba la hipotesis de LawsoN (1975) sobre los habitos carrofleros de Quetzalcaatlus. analizando su morfologia funcional y complementando este analisis con el del habitat en el qtme vivio. Se concluye, en base a la morfologia del pico, del cuello y a la movilidad en cierra y aire, que es bastante improbable que fuera carronero, proponiendose alternativamente que fuera pescador un metodo de pesca similar al de los con actcmaLes rayadores (Rwscitops).
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
1998 - | Coloquios de Paleontología
David M. Martill, Rushdie M. Sadaqah, Hani Khoury,
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
1998 - E. Schweizerbart | Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen
David W. E. Hone, Michael B. Habib, François Therrien,
... very fragmentary remains tentatively assigned to the genus Quetzalcoatlus, additional material uncovered over the years has revealed ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Leonardo D. Ortiz David, Bernardo J. González Riga, Alexander W. A. Kellner,
... groups: (Arambourgiania, Mistralazhdarcho, Aerotitan, Hatzegopteryx, Albadraco) + (Cryodrakon, Thanatosdrakon, Quetzalcoatlus ssp.). Thanatosdrakon is the oldest taxon of the ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2022 - Elsevier BV | Cretaceous Research
Brian Andres, Kevin Padian, Timothy B. Rowe, Christopher J. Bell, Matthew Brown, J.C. Sagebiel, Thomas M. Lehman, James R. Cunningham,
... Code, is to conserve the widely used binomen Quetzalcoatlus northropi in its accustomed usage by making the ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
2017 - International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature | The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature
... paper as new: Lathrolestes xochiquetzalis sp. n., L. quetzalcoatlus sp. n., L. tepeyollotlis sp. n. and L. ...
Tópico(s): Forest Insect Ecology and Management
2011 - Netherlands Entomological Society | Tijdschrift voor Entomologie
... a flying creature as large as a giant quetzalcoatlus (12-15 m wingspan) actually fly when aerodynamic ...
Tópico(s): Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
2006 - Association of the Chemical Engineers of Serbia | Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2019 - International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature | The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature