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Thalassodromeus
''Thalassodromeus'' was a large pterodactyloid pterosaur found in northeastern Brazil.
==Discovery==
The genus was named in 2002 by Alexander Kellner and Diogenes de Almeida Campos. The type species is ''Thalassodromeus sethi''. The genus name is derived from Greek ''thalasse'', "sea" and ''dromaios'', "runner", in reference to its presumed life style as a skimmer. The specific name refers to the Egyptian god Seth because of the similarity in head form. In 2006 André Jacques Veldmeijer suggested Kellner had confused Seth with the god Amun whose crown shows a remarkable resemblance with the ''Thalassodromeus'' head crest.
The genus is based on holotype DGM 1476-R, a damaged partial skull, found in the Santana Formation. ''Thalassodromeus'' lived in the Early Cretaceous, roughly 108 million years ago. It shared the skies with its smaller cousin ''Tapejara''. It is particularly notable for its immense head crest, beginning at the tip of the snout and ending far behind the braincase, which accounts for seventy-five percent of the surface of its 1.42 metre (4.6 ft) long skull. The jaws were pointed and toothless. It had a wing span of roughly 4.5 metres (14.7 ft). The function of the crest is unknown, but it may have been used for sexual display, species recognition, or thermoregulation. A lower jaw fragment referred to ''Thalassodromeus'', DGM 1476-M, indicates a larger example with a wingspan of 5.3 metres (17.4 ft).
Another jaw fragment, SAO 251093, was unofficially suggested to be a new species, "Thalassodromeus oberli" (referring to the Urs Oberli collection), by Veldmeijer in 2006,〔 after having referred the specimen to ''T. sethi'' in 2005. In 2014 this was made a separate genus ''Banguela''.
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