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Pterosaurs are not ornithodires and we know their genesis

Posted by DavidPeters1247 on 26 Oct 2019 at 17:51 GMT

Peters 2000, 2007, 2009 showed that pterosaurs arose from Macrocnemus, Langobardisaurus, Cosesaurus, Sharovipteryx and Longisquama in that phylogenetic order and that these taxa were lepidosaurs nesting between Sphenodontia and Squamata. That makes Ornithodira a junior synonym for Amniota and Reptilia. None of these taxa are mentioned in the present online paper.

Peters D 2000b. A reexamination of four prolacertiforms with implications for pterosaur phylogenesis. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 106: 293–336.
Peters D 2007. The origin and radiation of the Pterosauria. In D. Hone ed. Flugsaurier. The Wellnhofer pterosaur meeting, 2007, Munich, Germany. p. 27.
Peters D 2009. A reinterpretation of pteroid articulation in pterosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 1327-1330

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