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doi: 10.5252/g2012n4a10
ABSTRACT Varricchio (2002) described some forelimb bones from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation, Glacier County, Montana (USA), as the holotype of Piksi barbarulna, a supposed ornithothoracine bird. However reevaluation of Piksi Varricchio, 2002 instead recognizes this genus as belonging to Pterosauria Kaup, 1834 and not Aves Linnaeus, 1758. Piksi exhibits the following derived humeral traits of pterosaurs: 1) very large ectepicondyle; 2) large trochlea; 3) with a deep, wide and poorly deliminated brachial depression that is proximodistally extended; 4) a wide and deep olecranal fossa not marked dorsally by a ridge; and 5) lacking a distal depression of the groove for the m. humerotricipitalis. Moreover, the putative Early Cretaceous birds Eurolimnornis Jurcsak & Kessler, 1986 and Palaeocursornis Jurcsak & Kessler, 1986, based on distal humeri, are also regarded as pterosaurs. The record of Piksi constitutes an important addition to the Latest Cretaceous pterosaurian record.
Pterosauria, Reptilia, Animalia, Biodiversity, Chordata, Aves, Aves (awaiting allocation), Taxonomy
Pterosauria, Reptilia, Animalia, Biodiversity, Chordata, Aves, Aves (awaiting allocation), Taxonomy
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