R. Pêgas 🦖🏳️‍🌈

This preprint (from authors who have not seen the specimen) is biased by anatomical misinterpretations and overlooks tooth histology and implantation. I suggest readers remain cautious. We also have further data that will help elucidate the matter.

Stay tuned!

Hi! I just replied you on X and will paste my reply here: I'm terribly sorry, that was definitely not my intention. Perhaps that was phrased poorly. I did mean to support your conclusions, and then to just refer readers to the opposing views so they would have context. Did this come off differently?

Very exciting new study in PeerJ on #azhdarchids, with two new taxa (Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx), multiple new clade names and new placements for key taxa... peerj.com/articles/197...

Artist's life reconstruction of a pair of Galgadraco zephyrius gen. et sp. nov. (centre) in a late Maastrichtian environment, showcasing the palaeobiota of the Serra da Galga Geosite. Artwork by Matheus Gadelha.

The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PapersinPalaeontology @rv-pegas.bsky.social

Thank you Henry!! And thanks again for the thoughtful review!! 😊

Thanks for the warm welcome to them!

With the wonderful art of Zhao Chuang! Gobiazhdarcho is the larger, red one; Tsogtopteryx is the smaller, blue one.

The article is OA here! peerj.com/articles/197...
Counting with my dear friend Xuanyu Zhou and Prof. Kobayashi

⚠️Pterosaur alert🔔

Please welcome Gobiazhdarcho and Tsogtopteryx, two azhdarchids from the Bayanshiree Fm. of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia!

Despite known only from cervical remains, these elements are surprisingly informative for Azhdarchidae and help us ID them quite well [+]

We're proud to reveal our new posters! A lot of effort went into the big mural-style poster especially. These will soon all be shipped out to backers who ordered them, and eventually we'll open an online store where you can buy them as well!

Some issues with this. "Looks like"? Let's see the CT scans of the skeleton and teeth: that will tell us if they are morphologically similar to Aenocyon dirus rather than Canis lupus.

"Act like"?!?!?! We don't **KNOW** what they acted like! Kind of a big issue in paleo!

I'm so happy to see this out!!!!!! CONGRATS!!!!! Awesome!

Skeleton of turkey (by Matthew Wedel) marked with the derived traits from various points on the dinosaur family tree as found in that species.

As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:

Thank you so much, Henry!! I'm really looking forward to your upcoming works too! Fragmentary pterosaurs deserve more love

Please welcome the first named pterosaur species from Japan: Nipponopterus mifunensis!!
Thanks to N. Ikegami and X. Zhou for allowing me to take part in this study!
With the magnificent artwork of Zhao Chuang

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As well as of its phylogenetic affinities.
Here's the paper in case you want to know more!
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The specimen is a partial neck vertebra. Despite fragmentary, neck vertebrae are superbly informative regarding azhdarchid diversity and phylogeny. Luckily, enough anatomical detail is preserved, allowing for the identification of autapomorphies...

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Please welcome the first named pterosaur species from Japan: Nipponopterus mifunensis!!
Thanks to N. Ikegami and X. Zhou for allowing me to take part in this study!
With the magnificent artwork of Zhao Chuang

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Enfim nosso prefeito

O pilantra é carismático e divertido, é o suco do carioca

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The collapse of Twitter has made it much harder for me to advertise myself and my work. I illustrate bones and skeletons, mostly of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. I offer heavy discounts for academic customers.

Further examples of my work: www.skyemcdavid.com/gallery

-Museu de Zoologia da USP em São Paulo
- Museu de Paleontologia de Peirópolis, Uberaba-MG
- Museu de Paleontologia de Monte Alto-SP
- Museu de Paleontologia de Marília-SP
- Museu de Ciências da Terra no Rio de Janeiro
- Museu Câmara Cascudo, em Natal-RN
- Museu de História Natural da PUC de BH

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