Montanazhdarcho

Name: Montanazhdarcho (Montana Azhdarcho).
Phonetic: Mon-tan-ah-az-dar-ko.
Named By: Kevin Padian, Armand de Ricql�s, and Jack Horner - 1995.
Classification: Carnivore, Reptilia, Pterosaur, Pterodactyloidea, Azhdarchoidea, Azhdarchidae.
Species: M. minor (type).
Type: Piscivore/carnivore.
Size: 2.5 meter wingspan.
Known locations: USA, Montana, Glacier County, Blackfoot Nation - Two Medicine Formation.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains including partial mandible, shoulder girdle, cervical vertebra and partial left wing.

       Not much can be said about Montanazhdarcho except that much of the fossil material, with the exception of the crushed cervical vertebra, was uncompressed. The fossil was also of an adult individual which at a two and half meter wingspan, was small by azdarchid pterosaur standards.

Further reading
- Bone histology determines identification of a new fossil taxon of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria). - Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Science, Serie II (320)77-84. - K. Padian, A. J. de Ricqles & J. R. Horner - 1995.
- Reassignment of Montanazhdarcho minor as a non-azhdarchid member of the Azhdarchoidea. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35: 104.- Nathan Carroll - 2015.

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