In Depth
Bogolubovia did not come into existence until seventy-five years after the holotype was discovered in 1914 by Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov. Initially the remains were attributed to Ornithostoma as O. orientalis, and later reclassified as a species of Pteranodon. Now the original description can be compared with greater understanding of pterosaurs in general, Bogolubovia is thought to represent an azhdarchid pterosaur.
Further Reading
– O pozvonk’ pterodaktilya uz’ vyerkhnyem’lovyikh’ otlozhyenii Saratovskoi gubyernii (A propos d’une vert�bre de Pterodactyle des depots cretac�s superieurs du gouvernment de Sartoff). [On a pterodactyle vertebra from Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Government of Saratoff].” Annuaire geologique et mineralogique de la Russie, 16(1): 1-7. [in Russian]. – N. N. Bogolubov – 1914. – A New Record of an Azhdarchid (Pterosauria: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Volga Region.” Paleontological Journal, 39(4): 433-439. – A. O. Averianov, M. S. Arkhangelsky, E. M. Pervushov & A. V. Ivanov – 2005.
