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Cervicalvertebraeofanenigmaticpterosaurfrom

theCratoFormation(LowerCretaceous,

AraripeBasin,NEBrazil)

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MARIAE.C.LEAL*,RODRIGOV.PEGAS,NIELSBONDE

ALEXANDERW.A.KELLNER2

1ˆ´

CentrodeCiencias,DepartamentodeGeologia,UniversidadeFederaldoCeara,

CampusdoPICI–BL.912,CEP.60455-760,Fortaleza,CE,Brazil

2LaboratoryofSystematicsandTaphonomyofFossilVertebrates,

DepartamentodeGeologiaePaleontologia,UniversidadeFederaldoRiodeJaneiro,

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MuseuNacional,QuintadaBoaVistas/n,SaoCristovao,CEP.20940-040,

RiodeJaneiro,RJ,Brazil

3BiosystematicsSection,ZoologicalMuseum(SNM,CopenhagenUniversity),

Universitetsparken15,DK-2100CopenhagenØ,Denmark

4FurMuseum(MuserumSalling),Nederby28,DK-7884Fur,Denmark

*Correspondence:castroleal@

Abstract:TheBrazilianCratoFormation(LowerCretaceous,Aptian)iswellknownforitsrich

pterosaurfauna.Thispaperdealswithanewfindrepresentedbyfourarticulatedmid-cervicalver-

tebrae.ThevertebraeshowamorphologyconsistentwiththatseenintheChaoyangopteridae,espe-

ciallytherelativeelongation,lowneuralspines,lackofpneumaticforaminaonthelateralfac