Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and   ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea

doi:10.1098/rsos.160672

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	Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea
	Zhou, Chang-Fu ; Gao, Ke-Qin ; Yi, Hongyu ; Xue, Jinzhuang ; Li, Quanguo ; Fox, Richard C.
刊名	ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
	2017
关键词	Jurassic pterosaurs feeding adaptations palaeoecology Yanliao Biota western Liaoning of China ARCHOSAURIA DIVERSITY DISPARITY TIME
DOI	10.1098/rsos.160672
英文摘要	Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their evolution remain poorly known. Here, we describe a 160 Ma filter-feeding pterosaur from western Liaoning, China, representing the geologically oldest record of the Ctenochasmatidae, a group of exclusive filter feeders characterized by an elongated snout and numerous fine teeth. The new pterosaur took the lead of a major ecological transition in pterosaur evolution from fish-catching to filter-feeding adaptation, prior to the Tithonian (145-152 Ma) diversification of the Ctenochasmatidae. Our research shows that the rise of ctenochasmatid pterosaurs was followed by the burst of eco-morphological divergence of other pterodactyloid clades, which involved a wide range of feeding adaptations that considerably altered the terrestrial ecosystems of the Cretaceous world.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 41272016]; Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Land and Resources [201311120]; Liaoning Millions of Talents Project [2014Q110]; Royal Society-Sino-British Trust Incoming Fellowship; University of Edinburgh; SCI(E); ARTICLE; 2; 4
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/475335]
专题	地球与空间科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhou, Chang-Fu,Gao, Ke-Qin,Yi, Hongyu,et al. Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea[J]. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE,2017.
APA	Zhou, Chang-Fu,Gao, Ke-Qin,Yi, Hongyu,Xue, Jinzhuang,Li, Quanguo,&Fox, Richard C..(2017).Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea.ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE.
MLA	Zhou, Chang-Fu,et al."Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea".ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE (2017).