Anhanguera blittersdorffi Campos and Kellner 1985 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: D. d. A. Campos and A. W. A. Kellner. 1985. Panorama of the flying reptiles study in Brazil and South America. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 57(4):453-466

Belongs to Anhanguera according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Campos and Kellner 1985, Headden and Campos 2014, Kellner and Tomida 2000, Unwin 2003 and Vila Nova et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Anhanguera araripensis, Anhanguera cuvieri, Anhanguera ligabuei, Anhanguera piscator, Anhanguera robustus, Anhanguera santanae

Type specimen: Blittersdorff collection, a skull. Its type locality is Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Chapada do Araripe [Romualdo Fm.] (general)

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