page_title: Europejara
section_title: Phylogeny
hierarchical_section_title: Europejara / Phylogeny
caption_attribution_description: Lower jaw of Europejara olcadesorum gen. et sp. nov. (A) Close-up of the symphyseal area (acid-prepared counterslab) in right lateral view showing the typical step-like dorsal margin of the dentary in tapejarines (arrow). Note the strong lateral compression of the mandible and the trabecular structure of the sagittal crest of the dentary (scd). (B) Close-up of the best preserved margin of the dentary crest (main slab). Note the concave posterior border (arrow) giving the peculiar recurved aspect of the dentary crest of Europejara. scd, sagittal crest of the dentary. Scale bars: 10 mm.
context_page_description: Europejara is a genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Spain.
context_section_description: Europejara was assigned to the Tapejaridae. A cladistic analysis showed it to be more precisely a member of the Tapejarinae. Apart from being the first tapejarid known from Europe, it would also be the oldest pterosaur with certainty known to be edentulous; older fragments have been reported representing other generally toothless clades but these did not include the jaws themselves.
  The cladogram below follows the 2014 analysis Andres and colleagues.
caption: Close-up of the lower jaw
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