Cranial crest development in the Azhdarchoid pterosaur Tupuxuara, with a review of the genus and tapejarid monophyly

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Lone Star Pterosaurs (2012, methodology): “Martill & Naish (2006) provided an outline of the rostrum and stated that it had an aspect ratio more similar to Tupuxuara than to Quetzalcoatlus, referring to the specimen as the Javelina Tupuxuara in their figure 5.”
Does mutual sexual selection explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs (2012, background): “Turning to pachycephalosaurs, the first line of defence among these obligate bipeds was almost certainly escape rather than attack, as directly challenging a predator is typically limited to large herbivores similar in size or bigger and slower then their potential predator.”
Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement (2009, background): “This is particularly likely to be the case in the assemblages from the Santana (e.g., Martill and Naish 2006), Yixian, and Jiufotang Formations, given the very high numbers of species described in recent years from relatively small numbers of individuals, and the scarcity (to date) of comprehensive…”
A NEW PTEROSAUR FROM THE LIAONING PROVINCE OF CHINA, THE PHYLOGENY OF THE PTERODACTYLOIDEA, AND CONVERGENCE IN THEIR CERVICAL VERTEBRAE (2008, background): “Elongate dorsal premaxillary spine (Martill and Naish 2006): 0, absent; 1, present.”