A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs
Natalia Jagielska, Michael O’Sullivan, Gregory F. Funston, Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, Neil D. L. Clark, Nicholas C. Fraser, Amelia Penny, Dugald A. Ross, Mark Wilkinson, Stephen L. Brusatte
Abstract
Far from a static prologue to the Cretaceous, the Middle Jurassic was a key interval in pterosaur evolution, in which some non-pterodactyloids diversified and experimented with larger sizes, concurrent with or perhaps earlier than the origin of birds. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
Topics & Concepts
BiologySkeleton (computer programming)PaleontologyEvolutionary biologyAnatomyZoologyPaleontology and Evolutionary BiologyEvolution and Paleontology StudiesIchthyology and Marine Biology