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03C887E3FFE185497413FC2EFF13F968.text	03C887E3FFE185497413FC2EFF13F968.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Propterodactylus frankerlae Spindler 2024	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Propterodactylus frankerlae gen. nov., sp. nov.</p>
            <p>Figures 1-10</p>
            <p>zoobank.org/ 7F2B8C07-B736-4830-BA20-53CD548F22E5</p>
            <p> Holotype. DMA-JP-2011/006 (Figures 1, 2) comprises a complete and fully articulated skeleton, exposed in right lateral view, with soft tissue remains in the trunk region and wing actinofibrils (Tischlinger and Frey, 2013, figure 8). Checked under UV, the slab contains very little repair and shows no restored areas.</p>
            <p>Etymology. The epithet honours Petra Hahn, née Frankerl (1966 - 2019), the wife of Stephan Hahn, who found the specimen in 2011 during the scientific excavation.</p>
            <p>Horizon and locality. Lower levels of the Rygol lime works quarry near Painten, Bavaria, Germany. The outcrop contributes to the “Solnhofen archipelago“, a Jurassic reef platform complex (Viohl, 2015a, b; Wilkin, 2020). The “Paintener Wanne” (depression or basin) is among the largest areas of laminated limestones that preserved allochthoneous biota under hypoxic conditions (Albersdörfer and Häckel, 2015). In the sampled level, fine-layered to laminated, irregularly silicified limestones (Kieselplattenkalke) belong to the uppermost Ulmense Subzone (index ammonite Lithoceras ulmense), representing the end-Kimmeridgian stage (Schweigert, 2007, 2015). Therefore, the</p>
            <p>SPINDLER: PTEROSAURIAN CONNECTING LINK specimen described herein is a contemporary of the oldest known Archaeopteryx from a neighbouring basin (Rauhut et al., 2018, figure 1). Information about the faunal content of the Late Jurassic marine and insular environment from Painten is provided by specific studies (Rauhut et al., 2012; Bennett, 2013b; Tischlinger and Frey, 2013; Spindler, 2019; Spindler and Albersdörfer, 2019; Sachs</p>
            <p>PALAEO- ELECTRONICA.ORG et al., 2021; Spindler et al., 2021; Augustin et al., 2022, 2023).</p>
            <p>Diagnosis. Monofenestratan pterosaur with unique combination of characters: skull moderately elongate, but longer than trunk, maxillary tooth row under nasoantorbital fenestra, nasoantorbital fenestra shorter than the massive rostrum, 11 maxillary tooth positions, nine dentary tooth positions, teeth moderately long and slightly curved conical, wide interdental spaces, cervicals slightly elongated, elongation including the eighth cervical, mid-dorsal diapophyses with offset articulation for rib read, caudal number about 18, mid-caudals moderately elongated and interlocked by needle-like prezygapophyses and hemapophyses, tail very short, distal scapula narrowed to form rounded tip, coracoid with large acrocoracoid process, pteroid slightly elongated, wing metacarpus slightly elongated, small but functional 5th toe with two phalanges.</p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C887E3FFE185497413FC2EFF13F968	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Spindler, Frederik	Spindler, Frederik (2024): A pterosaurian connecting link from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 35) 27 (2): 1-27, DOI: 10.26879/1366, URL: https://doi.org/10.26879/1366
