Name:
Apatorhamphus
(deceptive snout).
Phonetic: A-pat-o-ram-pus.
Named By: James McPhee, Nizar Ibrahim, Alex
Kao, David M. Unwin, Roy Smith & David M. Martill
- 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Chaoyangopteridae.
Species: A. gyrostega
(type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: Morocco - Kem Kem beds.
Time period: Albian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial snout.
Afrotapejara
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in North Africa at the time of the
Early/Late Cretaceous boundary.
Further reading
- A new ?chaoyangopterid (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from
the Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Southern Morocco. - Cretaceous
Research. 110: Article 104410. - James McPhee, Nizar
Ibrahim, Alex Kao, David M. Unwin, Roy Smith & David
M. Martill - 2020.
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