Pterosauria (Italian Wikipedia)

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S.J. Nesbitt, The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades (PDF), in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 352, 2011, pp. 1-292, DOI:10.1206/352.1.

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Michael J. Benton, Origin and relationships of Dinosauria, in Weishampel, David B., Dodson, Peter e Osmólska, Halszka (a cura di), The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2004, pp. 7–19, ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
David M. Unwin, The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time, New York, Pi Press, 2006, p. 246, ISBN 0-13-146308-X.
Padian K, A Functional Analysis of Flying and Walking in Pterosaurs, in Paleobiology, vol. 9, n. 3, 1983, pp. 218-39, JSTOR 2400656.
Hwang K, Huh M, Lockley MG, Unwin DM, Wright JL, New pterosaur tracks (Pteraichnidae) from the Late Cretaceous Uhangri Formation, southwestern Korea, in Geological Magazine, vol. 139, n. 4, 2002, pp. 421-35, DOI:10.1017/S0016756802006647.
Bennett S. C., A statistical study of Rhamphorhynchus from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany: Year-classes of a single large species, in Journal of Paleontology, vol. 69, 1995, pp. 569-580, JSTOR 1306329.

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Arnold, Caroline e Caple, Laurie A., Pterodactyl, in Pterosaurs: rulers of the skies in the dinosaur age, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, p. 23, ISBN 978-0-618-31354-9.
Alexander, David E. e Vogel, Steven, Nature's Flyers: Birds, Insects, and the Biomechanics of Flight, JHU Press, 2004, p. 191, ISBN 978-0-8018-8059-9.
Redfern, Ron, Origins: the evolution of continents, oceans, and life, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001, p. 335, ISBN 978-0-8061-3359-1.
Templin, R. J. e Chatterjee, Sankar, Posture, locomotion, and paleoecology of pterosaurs, Boulder, Colo, Geological Society of America, 2004, p. 60, ISBN 0-8137-2376-0.

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Xiaolin Wang, Sexually Dimorphic Tridimensionally Preserved Pterosaurs and Their Eggs from China ^{[collegamento interrotto]}, in Current Biology, vol. 24, n. 12, 2014, pp. 1323-1330, DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.054, PMID 24909325.

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Haluza, A. Y Apesteguía, S., Pterosaur remains (Archosauria, Ornithodira) from the early Late Cretaceous of "La Buitrera", Río Negro, Argentina, in XXIII Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, 2007.

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B. Andres, J. Clark e X. Xu, The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group, in Current Biology, vol. 24, n. 9, 2014, pp. 1011-6, DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030, PMID 24768054.
Elgin RA, Hone DW, Frey E, The Extent of the Pterosaur Flight Membrane, in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 56, n. 1, 2011, pp. 99-111, DOI:10.4202/app.2009.0145.
X. Wang, A.W.A. Kellner, Z. Zhou e D.A. Campos, Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, n. 6, 2008, pp. 1983-1987, DOI:10.1073/pnas.0707728105, PMC 2538868, PMID 18268340.
Lawson DA, Pterosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of West Texas: Discovery of the Largest Flying Creature, in Science, vol. 187, n. 4180, marzo 1975, pp. 947-948, DOI:10.1126/science.187.4180.947, PMID 17745279.
Buffetaut E, Grigorescu D, Csiki Z, A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest cretaceous of Romania, in Naturwissenschaften, vol. 89, n. 4, aprile 2002, pp. 180-4, DOI:10.1007/s00114-002-0307-1, PMID 12061403.
Witmer LM, Chatterjee S, Franzosa J, Rowe T, Neuroanatomy of flying reptiles and implications for flight, posture and behaviour, in Nature, vol. 425, n. 6961, 2003, pp. 950-3, DOI:10.1038/nature02048, PMID 14586467.
Bennett SC, Pterosaur flight: the role of actinofibrils in wing function, in Historical Biology, vol. 14, n. 4, 2000, pp. 255-84, DOI:10.1080/10292380009380572.
A.W.A. Kellner, X. Wang, H. Tischlinger, D. Campos, D.W.E. Hone e X. Meng, The soft tissue of Jeholopterus (Pterosauria, Anurognathidae, Batrachognathinae) and the structure of the pterosaur wing membrane, in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 277, n. 1679, 2009, pp. 321-329, DOI:10.1098/rspb.2009.0846, PMC 2842671, PMID 19656798.
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Xiao-Lin Wang, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Shun-Xing Jiang, Xin Cheng, Xi Meng e Taissa Rodrigues, New long-tailed pterosaurs (Wukongopteridae) from western Liaoning, China, in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, vol. 82, n. 4, 2010, pp. 1045-1062, DOI:10.1590/s0001-37652010000400024.
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Wang X, Zhou Z, Zhang F, Xu X, A nearly completely articulated rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with exceptionally well-preserved wing membranes and "hairs" from Inner Mongolia, northeast China, in Chinese Science Bulletin, vol. 47, n. 3, 2002, p. 3, DOI:10.1360/02tb9054.
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Zixiao Yang, Baoyu Jiang, Maria E. McNamara, Stuart L. Kearns, Michael Pittman, Thomas G. Kaye, Patrick J. Orr, Xing Xu e Michael J. Benton, Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, n. 1, 2019, pp. 24-30, DOI:10.1038/s41559-018-0728-7.
Fucheng Zhang, Stuart L. Kearns, Patrick J. Orr, Michael J. Benton, Zhonghe Zhou, Diane Johnson, Xing Xu e Xiaolin Wang, Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds (PDF), in Nature, vol. 463, n. 7284, 2010, pp. 1075-1078, DOI:10.1038/nature08740, PMID 20107440.
Felipe L. Pinheiro, Gustavo Prado, Shosuke Ito, John D. Simon, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Luiz E. Anelli, José A. F. Andrade e Keely Glass, Chemical characterization of pterosaur melanin challenges color inferences in extinct animals, in Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 2019, pp. Article number 15947, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-52318-y, PMC 6828676, PMID 31685890.
R. B. Irmis, S. J. Nesbitt, K. Padian, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, D. Woody e A. Downs, A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs, in Science, vol. 317, n. 5836, 2007, pp. 358-61, DOI:10.1126/science.1143325, PMID 17641198.
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S.J. Nesbitt, The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades (PDF), in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 352, 2011, pp. 1-292, DOI:10.1206/352.1.
Mark P. Witton, Were early pterosaurs inept terrestrial locomotors?, in PeerJ, vol. 3, 2015, pp. e1018, DOI:10.7717/peerj.1018, PMC 4476129, PMID 26157605.
A. W. Kellner, Pterosaur phylogeny and comments on the evolutionary history of the group, in Geological Society, London, Special Publications, vol. 217, n. 1, 2003, pp. 105-137, DOI:10.1144/gsl.sp.2003.217.01.10.
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Agnolin, Federico L. e Varricchio, David, Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird (PDF), in Geodiversitas, vol. 34, n. 4, 2012, pp. 883-894, DOI:10.5252/g2012n4a10.
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X. Wang, A.W.A. Kellner, Z. Zhou e D.A. Campos, Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, n. 6, 2008, pp. 1983-1987, DOI:10.1073/pnas.0707728105, PMC 2538868, PMID 18268340.
A. W. A. Kellner, D. A. Campos, J. M. Sayão, A. N. A. F. Saraiva, T. Rodrigues, G. Oliveira, L. A. Cruz, F. R. Costa, H. P. Silva e J. S. Ferreira, The largest flying reptile from Gondwana: A new specimen of Tropeognathus cf. T. Mesembrinus Wellnhofer, 1987 (Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae) and other large pterosaurs from the Romualdo Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Brazil, in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, vol. 85, 2013, pp. 113-135, DOI:10.1590/S0001-37652013000100009.
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Lü Junchang, Pu Hanyong, Xu Li, Wu Yanhua e Wei Xuefang, Largest Toothed Pterosaur Skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China, with Comments On the Family Boreopteridae, in Acta Geologica Sinica, vol. 86, n. 2, 2012, pp. 287-293, DOI:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2012.00658.x.
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M.P. Witton, A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of Brazil, in Palaeontology, vol. 51, n. 6, 2008, pp. 1289-1300, DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00811.x.
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Leonardo D. Ortiz David, Bernardo J. González Riga & Alexander W. A. Kellner (2017). Discovery of the largest pterosaur from South America. Cretaceous Research (advance online publication); doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.004
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Lü Junchang, Pu Hanyong, Xu Li, Wu Yanhua e Wei Xuefang, Largest Toothed Pterosaur Skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China, with Comments On the Family Boreopteridae, in Acta Geologica Sinica, vol. 86, n. 2, 2012, pp. 287-293, DOI:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2012.00658.x.

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Padian K, A Functional Analysis of Flying and Walking in Pterosaurs, in Paleobiology, vol. 9, n. 3, 1983, pp. 218-39, JSTOR 2400656.
Bennett S. C., A statistical study of Rhamphorhynchus from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany: Year-classes of a single large species, in Journal of Paleontology, vol. 69, 1995, pp. 569-580, JSTOR 1306329.

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Agnolin, Federico L. e Varricchio, David, Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird (PDF), in Geodiversitas, vol. 34, n. 4, 2012, pp. 883-894, DOI:10.5252/g2012n4a10.

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Ancient Winged Terror Was One of the Largest Animals to Fly, su news.nationalgeographic.com, 31 ottobre 2017.

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Devin Powell, Were pterosaurs too big to fly?, in NewScientist, 2 ottobre 2008. URL consultato il 2 marzo 2012.
Jeff Hecht, Did giant pterosaurs vault aloft like vampire bats?, in NewScientist, 16 novembre 2010. URL consultato il 2 marzo 2012.

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B. Andres, J. Clark e X. Xu, The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group, in Current Biology, vol. 24, n. 9, 2014, pp. 1011-6, DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030, PMID 24768054.
X. Wang, A.W.A. Kellner, Z. Zhou e D.A. Campos, Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, n. 6, 2008, pp. 1983-1987, DOI:10.1073/pnas.0707728105, PMC 2538868, PMID 18268340.
Lawson DA, Pterosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of West Texas: Discovery of the Largest Flying Creature, in Science, vol. 187, n. 4180, marzo 1975, pp. 947-948, DOI:10.1126/science.187.4180.947, PMID 17745279.
Buffetaut E, Grigorescu D, Csiki Z, A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest cretaceous of Romania, in Naturwissenschaften, vol. 89, n. 4, aprile 2002, pp. 180-4, DOI:10.1007/s00114-002-0307-1, PMID 12061403.
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