NEW DATA ON CRETACEOUS FLYING REPTILES (PTEROSAURIA) FROM RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN, AND KYRGYZSTAN

Abstract

New and previously unpublished finds of pterosaurian bones are described from the Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. The following taxa are determined: Pterodactyloidea indet. (distal fragment of femur; Kylodzhun locality, Kyrgyzstan; Albian); a very large Pterodactyloidea indet. (distal fragment of a second wing phalanx; Pavlovsk, Voronezh Region; Cenomanian); Ornithocheiridae indet. (distal fragment of the fourth metacarpal; Lebedinskii Quarry, Belgorod Region; Albian-Cenomanian; fragmentary maxilla; Sinen'kie locality, Saratov Region; Lower Cenomanian; fragmentary pelvis, femur, and sacral vertebrae from the same animal; Saratov, Russia; Cenomanian); and Azhdarchidae gen. et sp. indet. (jugal and a fragmentary cervical vertebra; Shakh-Shakh locality, Kazakhstan; Santonian-Campanian).