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- noun Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a
family ofpterosaurs known primarily from the lateCretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.
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Examples
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No fossilised azhdarchid wing membranes are known...
Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009
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Look, here's a quote from Witton and Naish 2008: "...evidence from anurognathids, campylognathoidids, rhamphorhynchids, ctenochasmatoids and non-azhdarchid azhdarchoids [86]–[91] indicates that ankle-attached wing configurations are more accurate."
Life's Time Capsule: Dr. Mark Witton weighs in on Pterosaur wings Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Several academic projects that have been mentioned on the blog have yet to come to fruition, including that long-delayed manuscript on British dinosaur diversity, and work on Cretaceous Spanish vertebrates, Wealden sauropods, and azhdarchid ecology.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Several academic projects that have been mentioned on the blog have yet to come to fruition, including that long-delayed manuscript on British dinosaur diversity, and work on Cretaceous Spanish vertebrates, Wealden sauropods, and azhdarchid ecology.
Happy first birthday Tetrapod Zoology (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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A family of Arambourgiania philadelphiae - a large azhdarchid pterosaur, formally called "Titanopteryx," found in Jordan from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian.
Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Look, here's a quote from Witton and Naish 2008: "...evidence from anurognathids, campylognathoidids, rhamphorhynchids, ctenochasmatoids and non-azhdarchid azhdarchoids [86]–[91] indicates that ankle-attached wing configurations are more accurate."
Archive 2009-06-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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A family of Arambourgiania philadelphiae - a large azhdarchid pterosaur, formally called "Titanopteryx," found in Jordan from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian.
Archive 2009-07-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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Of all the surprising things I was exposed to at the time, none was more striking and bizarre than the gigantic wall-mounted display on azhdarchid pterosaurs.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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I felt this prediction had come true when the post on azhdarchid pterosaurs attracted a record 14 responses.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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In contrast to scavenging raptors, corvids and marabous, the azhdarchid rostrum does not appear to have been well braced around its openings (this is the naris in the birds, but the nasoantorbital fenestra in the azhdarchids), nor (with its bony dorsal crest) is the skull well suited for probing into body cavities, nor is the long, stiff neck in agreement with this lifestyle.
Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006
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