Study of Small, Immature Pterosaurs from the Kem Kem Group

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This paper by Roy Smith et al. looks at small and immature pterosaurs finds in the Kem Kem Group and their implications.

The abstract states the a sampling bias exists and makes the following comment:

"Histological analysis suggests that very small/small morphs are immature individuals rather than species in which adults were small-bodied."

Unfortunately the paper is paywalled but this must raise to question how many of the smaller pterosaurs species that are named in the KK were early ontogenetic stages of larger pterosaurs.  Not surprised considering that there are 10 named and one indeterminate pterosaurs in the KK.

 

The authors include Ibrahim and Martill so it adds creditability to its publication

 

 

Paper Paywalled 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667121003098