Pterodaustro (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pterodaustro was a Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America, living 105 million years ago. The genus was named in 1969 by Jose Bonaparte as an as yet undescribed nomen nudum. The first description followed in 1970, making the name valid, the type species being Pterodaustro guinazui. The genus name is derived from Greek pteron, "wing" and Latin auster, "south (wind)." The elements are combined as a condensed pteron de austro, "wing from the south." The specific name honours paleontologist Roman Guinazu. It was emended in 1978 by Peter Wellnhofer into guinazui, because diacritical signs as the tilde are not allowed in species names. The first fossils, among them the holotype PLV 2571, a thigh bone, were in the late sixties discovered by Bonaparte in the Lagarcito Formation, situated in the San Luis Province of Patagonia, Argentina, and dating from the Albian.