The Osteology and Functional Morphology of the Late Cretaceous Pterosaur Pteranodon Part I. General Description of Osteology

By S. Bennett. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 2001

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A NEW PTEROSAUR FROM THE LIAONING PROVINCE OF CHINA, THE PHYLOGENY OF THE PTERODACTYLOIDEA, AND CONVERGENCE IN THEIR CERVICAL VERTEBRAE (2008, background): “…represent pterosaurs of above average size with large skulls, so the independent acquisitions of postexapophyses may have been the result of strengthening and restriction of movement in the necks of larger pterosaurs or at least those with larger cervical vertebrae (Bennett 2001; Williston 1897).”
On the phylogeny and evolutionary history of pterosaurs (2003, background): “Similar structures are also present in Dsungaripterus (Bennett 2001), Lonchodectidae (Unwin 2001), Tupuxuara (Bennett 2001), variably in Azhdarcho (Nesov 1984), and in Gnathosaurus macrurus, although according to Howse & Milner (1995) in the latter they are narrower and sharper than in ornithocheiri”
On the osteology of Tapejara wellnhoferi KELLNER 1989 and the first occurrence of a multiple specimen assemblage from the Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, NE-Brazil (2011, background): “The dorsal surface of the cerebellum is regularly convex until the beginning of the brain stem and more similar to that of Pteranodon than the cerebellum of Anhanguera, which is more irregular.”
Lone Star Pterosaurs (2012, background): “Bennett (2001) identified these as indeterminate wing phalanx shafts similar in cross-section to Dsungaripterus.”