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The paleoenvironments of azhdarchid pterosaurs localities in the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan. / Averianov, A.; Dyke, G.; Danilov, I.; Skutschas, P.
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T1 - The paleoenvironments of azhdarchid pterosaurs localities in the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan
AU - Averianov, A.
AU - Dyke, G.
AU - Danilov, I.
AU - Skutschas, P.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Five pterosaur localities are currently known from the Late Cretaceous in the northeastern Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan. Of these, one is Turonian-Coniacian in age, the Zhirkindek Formation (Tyulkili), and four are Santonian in age, all from the early Campanian Bostobe Formation (Baibishe, Akkurgan, Buroinak, and Shakh Shakh). All so far collected and identifiable Late Cretaceous pterosaur bones from Kazakhstan likely belong to Azhdarchidae: Azhdarcho sp. (Tyulkili); Aralazhdarcho bostobensis (Shakh Shakh); and Samrukia nessovi (Akkurgan). These latter two taxa, both from the Bostobe Formation might be synonyms. Azhdarcho sp. from the Zhirkindek Formation lived in a tropical-to-subtropical relatively humid climate on the shore of an estuarine basin connected to the Turgai Sea. Known fossils were collected in association with brackish-water bivalves and so the overall paleoenvironment of this pterosaur was likely an estuarine marsh as indicated by the dominance of conifers and low relative counts of ferns and
AB - Five pterosaur localities are currently known from the Late Cretaceous in the northeastern Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan. Of these, one is Turonian-Coniacian in age, the Zhirkindek Formation (Tyulkili), and four are Santonian in age, all from the early Campanian Bostobe Formation (Baibishe, Akkurgan, Buroinak, and Shakh Shakh). All so far collected and identifiable Late Cretaceous pterosaur bones from Kazakhstan likely belong to Azhdarchidae: Azhdarcho sp. (Tyulkili); Aralazhdarcho bostobensis (Shakh Shakh); and Samrukia nessovi (Akkurgan). These latter two taxa, both from the Bostobe Formation might be synonyms. Azhdarcho sp. from the Zhirkindek Formation lived in a tropical-to-subtropical relatively humid climate on the shore of an estuarine basin connected to the Turgai Sea. Known fossils were collected in association with brackish-water bivalves and so the overall paleoenvironment of this pterosaur was likely an estuarine marsh as indicated by the dominance of conifers and low relative counts of ferns and
KW - Pterosauria
KW - Azhdarchidae
KW - Late Cretaceous
KW - Kazakhstan
KW - distribution
KW - paleoenvironments
U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.483.9058
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.483.9058
M3 - Article
VL - 483
SP - 59
EP - 80
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
SN - 1313-2989
ER -
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