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Mid-cretaceous Ornithocheirids (Pterosauria, Ornithocheiridae) from Russia and Uzbekistan

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Ornithocheirid remains from 16 localities of Russia and Uzbekistan are reviewed. New material of ornithocheirids from the localities of Mogoito (Barremian-Aptian), Stoilo quarry (Albian-Cenomanian), and Khodzhakul (Cenomanian) is described. The Khodzhakul locality has yielded Ornithocheirus (the first record of this genus in Asia).

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Original Russian Text © A.O. Averianov, 2007, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, No. 1, pp. 75–82.

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Averianov, A.O. Mid-cretaceous Ornithocheirids (Pterosauria, Ornithocheiridae) from Russia and Uzbekistan. Paleontol. J. 41, 79–86 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103010701008X

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