Keresdrakon, a new pterosaur from Cretaceous Brazil

[Halichoeres]

From the same locality as Caiuajara, meet Keresdrakon vilsoni (Gr. "Keres" the female death-spirits in Greek mythology + "drakon" dragon). This is evidently a tapejaromorph, but didn't have the big crests of Caiuajara.

Here's the skull of the holotype:



And a reconstruction by Maurilio Oliveira, showing adults scavenging on the dinosaur Vespersaurus, being mobbed by Caiuajara, and a baby feeding on the lizard Gueragama:



Open access in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (in English!): http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652019000400517&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en

[Logo7]

Minor correction. The genus name is actually spelled Keresdrakon, not Keresdracon.

[Halichoeres]

Minor correction. The genus name is actually spelled Keresdrakon, not Keresdracon.

Thanks, fixed.