Name:
Keresdrakon
(Keres dragon).
Phonetic: Ke-res-dray-kon.
Named By: J. P. O'Gorman - 2016.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaromorpha.
Species: K. vilsoni (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Brazil - Goio-Er� Formation.
Time period: Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull, jaws and
partial post cranial skeleton.
Keresdrakon
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in Brazil during the Cretaceous.
The holotype individual of Keresdrakon was
discovered in a bone bed
with other pterosaur remains. These remains include the genus
Caiuajara,
proving that these two pterosaurs were active within the
same ecosystem at the same time.
Further reading
- A small body sized non-aristonectine elasmosaurid
(Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of
Patagonia with comments on the relationships of the patagonian and
antarctic elasmosaurids. - Ameghiniana 53(3):245-268. -
J. P. O'Gorman - 2016.
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