Tapejara
imperator Model at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany.
Made by Susanne Henssen
of Henssen Palaeowerkstatt with guidance from
Dr. E. Frey (Staatliches
Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany).
Tapejara Imperator
Tapejara
imperator Model at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany.
Made by Susanne Henssen
of Henssen Palaeowerkstatt with guidance from
Dr. E. Frey (Staatliches
Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany).
Tapejara (ancient being) imperator (emperor)
The Emperor was described by Campos and Kellner in 1997 as a pterosaur from the Santana Formation, northeastern Brazil. the skull specimen is now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, specimen no. MCT 1622-R, and the postcranial skeleton is held in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Campos, D. A. & Kellner, A. W. A. 1997, Short note on the first occurrence of Tapejaridae in the Crato Member (Aptian), Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil. An. Acad. Brasil. Ciênc., 69(1): 83-87.