sordes

All along, we've thought Sordes died out right at the end of the Jurassic!

Sordes probably ate small prey, perhaps including insects and amphibians.

"But a lot of people have suspected for some time that the Sordes wing membrane was more extensive than had been thought.

They're a new species of Sordes!

Paleontologists no longer believe that Sordes pilosus had hair, but its original name has stuck.

Sordes had a 0.63 m (two feet) wingspan.

Sordes has been assigned to the family Rhamphorhynchidae.

The type species is Sordes pilosus.

The specific name is Latin for "hairy"; despite sordes being feminine, it has not yet been emended to pilosa.

The group met each Saturday, most often at the home of Sordes; alternatively, they would meet at that of Klingsor.

According to Unwin, within Rhamphorhynchidae Sordes belonged to the Scaphognathinae.

Sordes had, according to Sharov and Unwin, wing membranes attached to the legs and a membrane between the legs.

The scientists concluded that all pterosaurs, not only the small Sordes pilosus, probably had much more extensive wing membranes than those depicted in traditional restorations of these animals.

"So the reconstruction of Sordes pilosus proposed by these guys," Dr. Padian said, "would effectively dislocate the animal's hind limbs."

A warm-blooded, fur-covered Sordes -and a fish eater, not an insectivore, but it's definitely a Sordes, there's no mistaking that!

Sordes was a small basal pterosaur from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian) Karabastau Svita of Kazakhstan.

Other researchers however, such as Alexander Kellner and Lü Junchang, have produced cladistic analyses showing that Sordes was much more basal, and not a rhamphorhynchid.

Its joint allowed it to flex in a different plane than the other phalanges in order to control the cruropatagium, as seen preserved in the specimen of Sordes pilosus PIN 2585.3.

FESORD CV (Federació de Persones Sordes de la Comunitat Valenciana)

Given the erroneous scientific name Sordes pilosus, meaning "hairy evil spirit," this little pterosaur had a pointed beak lined with needle-sharp teeth, and a long, flexible tail that may have helped it maneuver.

It is a member of the rhamphorhynchid subfamily Scaphognathinae, which had previously been known only from the Late Jurassic and includes the close relatives Scaphognathus, Sordes and Harpactognathus.

Une barque sur l'océan ("A boat on the Ocean") - Dedicated to Paul Sordes, the piece recounts a small boat as it sails upon the waves of the ocean.

Fossils of the rhamphorhynchoid Sordes, the anurognathid Jeholopterus, and a pterodactyloid from the Santana Formation seem to demonstrate that the wing membrane did attach to the hindlimbs, at least in some species.

The Sordes pilosus Dr. Unwin and Dr. Bakhurina studied was excavated in the 1960's from a rich Jurassic period fossil bed near Karatau, Kazakhstan, by Soviet paleontologists.

This insistence on celibacy explains the charge of Manichaeism some levelled against Priscillian (even Jerome, for his talk of the 'sordes nuptiarum', had been similarly accused, and to escape popular indignation had retired to Bethlehem).