Afrotapejara
Name:
Afrotapejara
(African old being).
Phonetic: Af-ro-tap-ejar-rah.
Named By: David M. Martill, Roy Smith, David
M. Unwin, Alexander Kao, James McPhee & Nizar Ibrahim
- 2020.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae.
Species: A. zouhri (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unknown due to lack of remains.
Known locations: Morocco - Kem Kem Beds.
Time period: Albian/Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial snouts.
Afrotapejara
is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur
that lived in North Africa at the
time of the Early/Late Cretaceous boundary.
Further reading
- new tapejarid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchoidea) from the
mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Takmout, southern Morocco. -
Cretaceous Research. - David M. Martill, Roy Smith, David
M. Unwin, Alexander Kao, James McPhee & Nizar Ibrahim
- 2020.
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