Bergamodactylus
Name:
Bergamodactylus.
Phonetic: Berg-am-o-dak-te-lus.
Named By: A. W. A. Kellner - 2015.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Pterosauia,
Campylognathoididae.
Species: B. wildi (type).
Diet: Piscivore.
Size: Wingspan of the holotype estimated at about
46.5 centimetres across.
Known locations: Italy - Zorzino Limestone
Formation.
Time period: Norian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial skeleton preserved on a slab.
The holotype specimen of Bergamodactylus was first described as a juvenile of the genus Eudimorphodon in 1978. A new study published in 2015 by Kellner revealed that this specimen was actually different enough from Eudimorphodon to warrant its own genus, hence the creation of Bergamodactylus. With a wingspan estimate of the holotype at about forty-six and a half centimetres, Bergamodactylus was small for a pterosaur, though the holotype individual was of a sub adult, so older full adults were possibly a little bit larger. At the time of writing Bergamodactylus is classed within the Campylognathoididae group of pterosaurs, and the genus holds a noted similarity to another pterosaur genus called Carniadactylus, though there is no question about the genera being separate.
Further reading
- Die Flugsaurier (Reptilia, Pterosauria) aus der Oberen Trias
von Cene bei Bergamo, Italien. - Bolletino della Societa
Paleontologica Italiana, 17 (2): 176-256. - R. Wild -
1978.
- Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with discussion about ontogeny and
description of new taxa. - Anais da Academia Brasileira de
Ciências 87(2):669-689. - A. W. A. Kellner - 2015.
- Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with a commentary on the ‘ontogenetic
stages’ of kellner (2015) and the validity of bergamodactylus wildi. -
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research in
Paleontology and Stratigraphy). - Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia - 2018.
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