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  • A specimen named Santanadactylus spixi Wellnhofer, 1985 is almost certainly a close relative of Tupuxuara (possibly even a member of the genus), despite the fact that it was named as a new species of an ornithocheirid genus (ornithocheirids are long-skulled toothed pterodactyloids closely related to Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus, and not particularly closely related to azhdarchoids).

    Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006

  • Long-skulled Longirostravis has ten small, conical teeth restricted entirely to its slim jaw tips (Hou et al. 2004) and short, conical teeth are similarly only at the jaw tips in another long-skulled enantiornithean, Longipteryx (Zhang et al. 2001).

    The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006

  • Long-skulled Longirostravis has ten small, conical teeth restricted entirely to its slim jaw tips (Hou et al. 2004) and short, conical teeth are similarly only at the jaw tips in another long-skulled enantiornithean, Longipteryx (Zhang et al. 2001).

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A specimen named Santanadactylus spixi Wellnhofer, 1985 is almost certainly a close relative of Tupuxuara (possibly even a member of the genus), despite the fact that it was named as a new species of an ornithocheirid genus (ornithocheirids are long-skulled toothed pterodactyloids closely related to Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus, and not particularly closely related to azhdarchoids).

    Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It turns out that Oviraptor was comparatively long-skulled for an oviraptorid and it may have been the most basal oviraptorine (Clark et al. 2002).

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Quetzal's long-skulled, completely hairless head bobbed above his cup.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Quetzal's long-skulled, completely hairless head bobbed above his cup.

    Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994

  • Their skulls belong to the "long-skulled" races, and would ally them to the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

  • Dr. Beddoe pronounced the remains to be neolithic, and the persons here interred were of a dolichocephalic or long-skulled race -- sometimes known as the long barrow-builders, who generally buried their dead without cremation.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Variations with a broader skull appeared in Europe very soon after this, if not along with the long-skulled Cro-Magnon race in the diluvian epoch, so that the present different shapes of crania found in Europe seem to go back to the earliest era.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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