New Tapejarid from Spain

[Arioch]

Europejara: a new Crested Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: The First European Tapejarid (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea).

Paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038900





This basically confirms what most experts suspected;  big and mid sized pterosaurs had a nearly world wide distribution, and there probably was very small difference (if any) between the pterosaurian fauna of Gondwana and europe/the northern hemisphere during the Cretaceous.

[ZoPteryx]

Tapejarids are known from South America and Asia, it makes sense that they'd be found in Europe too.  Cool find, thanks for posting Arioch!