Azhdarchidae

It's about a seed world (like Serina or Kaimere), that has only one supercontinent and a bunch of islands. These are some of the creatures that are on the proyect (NOT FINAL DESIGNS), and I have some questions involving them...

1. How probable is for an azhdarcid to evolve into something like Stiletocheirus? And if not really possible, how can I make a speculative azhdarchid that supports itself on it's enlarged finger while also using it like a weapon?

2. Involving Lapsitherium, how a speculative mudskipper with a mix between the ecologicals niches of a seal and a giant sloth would work?

3. Involving Nyctibius tuetue, since I'll may rework it; How a terrestial, human-looking potoo with the ecological niche of a secretary bird work

I would also encourage suggestions and concepts for my seed world, since my ideas really pop up slowly...

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Just when we thought 2025's track record in paleontology couldn't get any crazier, a paper has been released regarding azhdarchids and Quetzalcoatlus in particular. More on the latter in a moment.

Reconstruction included in paper by Kyra Zhuravel. Cryodrakon boreas, Hatzegopteryx thambema, Arambourgiania philadelphiae and Quetzalcoatlus northropi in that order. Very neat indeed.

Named "Enter the dragons: the phylogeny of Azhdarchoidea and the evolution of giant size in pterosaurs" by Henry Thomas, this study looks into the relationships of azhdarchoids to each other and creates 3 new clades to help organize them better.

• Shenzhoupterinae: a subfamily below Chaoyangopteridae that contains Shenzhoupterus and is a sister taxon to Chaoyangopterinae.

• Concilazhia: an unranked clade that connects the aforementioned Chaoyangopteridae to Azhdarchiformes as sister taxa.

• Serpennata: a clade below the tribe Quetzalcoatlini which essentially groups all the members who are large late-surviving fellas with super long necks such as Quetzalocoatlus and Arambougiania.

Image of the new phylogenetic ranks in relation to others.

Now, about Quetz itself. The genus has been recovered as polyphyletic. Q. lawsoni, the tiny species everyone bases their reconstructions off of, turns out to be a whole different taxon somewhere else in the Serpennata and more closely related to other unnamed quetzalcoatliines. Q. northropi is just fine where it's at, but will now be alone in its genus when the little guy is reclassified.

The scientists didn't name it anything new or created a new genus for it, but did make us aware of its relationship with other pterosaurs. So as things stand, it's still a "species" of Quetzalcoatlus, but will need reclassification, not unlike other genera like Velociraptor osmolskae or Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis.

Thank you for reading, just found this out today thanks to @Ganimes so shout out to him keeping an eye on new papers!

Hi, so, as the title says, i may or may not be working on a fanfic comic about dinosaurs showing up in the world of a certain video game. Accurate dinosaurs to be specific, and as such, i have certain questions. Now, this comic takes place in... well it's difficult to explain, but it's supposed to be Japan in the future after humans die out and a non human civilization takes over, with dinosaurs being brought back through unnatural means. As such, most genera that will be featured in the comic are gonna be asian, this will be releveant soon. Now, onto the questions:

• How plausible would it be to portray a fictional species of Pteranodon sized or slightly smaller Pteranodontid/Nyctosaurid?

• How plausible would it be to portray a fictional species of giant Azhdarchid, should it be more of a generalist (like a Quetzalcoatlus, Cryodrakon or Arambourginia) or a specialist apex predator like Hatzegopteryx

• Would it be fine for Zhuchengtyrannus to have binocular vision like a Rex instead of a Tarbosaurus?

• How large could the Zhuchengtyrannys get?

• Would it be fine for the Zhuchengtyrannus to actually not find the human sized characters as a meal?

• How unrealistic would it be for Chinese and maybe Mongolian genera to show up alongside Japanese species?

• How unrealistic would it be for me to include Siamosaurus?

• How feathered would something like a Fukuiraptor get?

That's all for now, i may have a couple more questions down the road, but this is mostly it, thank you in advance for answering! (Also props to you if you know what game i'm reffering to)

I decided to do WDYLM Cup again... (I promise, I will finish this before going to another.)

Contestants:

No Clade:

1. Argentinadraco

2. Inabtanin

3. Keresdrakon

4. Leptostomia

5. Montanazhdarcho

Dsungaripteridae:

1. Domeykodactylus

2. Dsungaripterus

3. Lonchognathosaurus

4. Noripterus

5. Ordosipterus

6. Puntanipterus

Thalassodromidae:

1. Banguela

2. Kariridraco

3. Thalassodromeus

4. Tupuxuara

Tapejarids & Tapejarimorphs:

1. Bennettazhia

2. Caupedactylus

3. Nemicolopterus

4. Bakonydraco

5. Aymberedactylus

6. Caupedactylus

7. Afrotapejara

8. Eopteranodon

9. Huaxiadraco

10. Sinopterus

11. Wightia

12. Europejara

13. Vectidraco

14. Tapejara

15. Tupandactylus

16. Caiuajara

17. Torukjara

Azhdarchomorpha:

1. †Alanqa

2. Eoazhdarcho

3. Microtuban

4. Radiodactylus

5. Xericeps

Azhdarchidae (Includes Navajodactylus & Palaeocursornis):

1. Aerotitan

2. Albadraco

3. Aralazhdarcho

4. Arambourgiania

5. Azhdarcho

6. Cryodrakon

7. Eurazhdarcho

8. Gobiazhdarcho

9. Hatzegopteryx

10. Infernodrakon

11. Mistralazhdarcho

12. Navajodactylus

13. Nipponopterus

14. Palaeocursornis

15. Phosphatodraco

16. Quetzalcoatlus

17. Samrukia

18. Thanatosdrakon

19. Tsogtopteryx

20. Wellnhopterus

21. Zhejiangopterus

Chaoyangopteridae:

1. Meilifeilong

2. Chaoyangopterus

3. Jidapterus

4. Shenzhoupterus

A total of 62 contestants. Out of those, who will win? Who will qualify?

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So uuhhh.... this is my first time posting anything here... well... posting any artwork of mine that is. As the text (which i hope is readable) suggests, it's a Hatzegopteryx. Got inspired to make this after learning these things could potentially run up to 42 Km/H, though i'd appreciate if any of you have more accurate estimates. Either way, they probably could outrun a human, but you all already know that. Oh also, i know the little thing at the bottom is of subpar quality, it was supposed to be a size refrence though i'm not certain if it's scaled properly. If you recognize, props to you i suppose. Either way, if you have any critique towards this, go ahead, i'm all ears, though i hope it alteast didn't burn your eyes out. Anyway, now i'll proceed to blow up all of Bulgaria in Gmod, have a nice day.

Maddie's Journal Entry on Nyctophaganax:

I have never seen such an horrifying beast in my entire life.

Nyctophaganax. teratos ('The Monsterous Lord of the Night Feeders') is the largest and most horrifying flying animal I've witnessed so far, and hopefully. Ever, I wasn't even searching out for it. The damm thing was searching out for me.

It appears Nyctophaganax is capable of using Mind control, and it seems it used Mind Control on Elliot. Luckily, I was able to help Elliot snap out of its control and me and I was able to grab him in his weakened state with my Talons.

However, this beast is also still capable of flight. It does seem that Nyctophaganax is capable of flight despite its massive size as it appears to use psychic magic to help aid itself in liftoff. I also noticed that it has too creepily long tounges... tounges that tried to grasp for both Eliot and me as we tried to fly away.

Whilst Nyctophaganax has left me a bit shooken up for a bit, I do feel that I'll need to take an break from archiving continent on my homeland for now after my theraputic sessions.

I myself and Eliot will journey far away to the distant land of Khelosu for now, there's less horrifying beasts there. And the Gorgon Shamens there are more helpful than they seem. Plus, Khelosu has more... "Unique" fauna than what I'm used to. So I'll be ready to explore.

In the meantime though, I'll have a break for a few weeks. There's some other Paper I need to work on however, but until then. My Archive will end here... for now that is.

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So this is just a simple plastic fork, right?

So, what if we... Fold one of it's parts like this?

It now looks like an azhdarchid! Now, when I first did this, I thought... "Why not making an azhdarchid sculpture with this fork?"

So yeah! Suggest an azhdarchid on the replies section and I will make an sculpture about the most upvoted one with this fork and sculpting clay!

Have fun suggesting your pterosaurs!

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