Bogolubovia

Bogolubovia is a genus of pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (early Campanian) Rybushka Formation of Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russia. It is named for Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov, the paleontologist who discovered the remains in 1914. It was in 1991 assigned to the Azhdarchidae. Wellnhofer (1991) however, retained it in the Pteranodontidae. Bogolubov had initially assigned the specimen, consisting of a single partial large cervical vertebra, as a new species of Ornithostoma, O. orientalis. It was later reclassified as a species of Pteranodon, before being assigned its own genus by Lev Nesov and Alexander Yarkov in 1989.[1][2] The holotype has probably been lost, but other partial remains have been referred to the genus.

Bogolubovia
Temporal range: Campanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Family: †Azhdarchidae
Genus: †Bogolubovia
Nesov & Yarkov, 1989
Type species
†Ornithostoma orientalis
Bogolubov, 1914
Species
  • †B. orientalis
    (Bogolubov, 1914)
Synonyms

Most modern paleontologists consider it a probable member of the family Azhdarchidae. In 2008 however, it was considered to be a nomen dubium that might in fact be identical to the genus Volgadraco, another pterosaur from Russia.[3]

Bogolubovia would have been a mid-sized member of family Azhdarchidae, with an estimated wingspan of 3–4 meters (9.8–13 feet) suggested by the holotype; a later found radius indicates a wingspan of 4.3 meters.[4]

See also

References
  1. Bogolubov, N.N. (1914). "O pozvonk’ pterodaktilya uz’ vyerkhnyem’lovyikh’ otlozhyenii Saratovskoi gubyernii (A propos d'une vertèbre de Pterodactyle des depots cretacés superieurs du gouvernment de Sartoff). [On a pterodactyle vertebra from Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Government of Saratoff]." Annuaire geologique et mineralogique de la Russie, 16(1): 1-7. (Russian text, French resume).
  2. Nesov, L.A. and Yarkov, A.A. (1989). “New Birds from the Cretaceous–Paleogene of the USSR and Some Remarks on the History of Origin and Evolution of the Class.” Tr. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 197: 78–97.
  3. Averianov, A.O.; Arkhangelsky, M.S.; Pervushov, E.M. (October 2008). "A New Late Cretaceous Azhdarchid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the Volga Region". Paleontological Journal. 42 (6): 634–642. doi:10.1134/S0031030108060099.
  4. Averianov, A.O., Arkhangelsky, M.S., Pervushov, E.M., and Ivanov, A.V. (2005). "A New Record of an Azhdarchid (Pterosauria: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Volga Region." Paleontological Journal, 39(4): 433-439.
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