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PUBLICATIONS

Here's a list of my scientific publications. Here you'll find all of my peer-reviewed papers. If you wish for a PDF or have any questions, feel free to contact me.

  1. Pêgas, R. V., Nascimento, A. S., Piazentin, L. C., Pinheiro, F. L., Zaher, H., & Costa, F. R. (2025). Untangling the identity of Romualdo pterosaurs: ‘Cearadactylus atrox’ as a junior synonym of Brasileodactylus araripensis (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae). Historical Biology, 1-11.
     

  2. Pêgas, R. V., Bandeira, K. L., & Silva, R. C. (2025). Prestosuchus (Reptilia, Pseudosuchia, Loricata) is available from Krebs, 1976, not Huene, 1938. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 82(1), 167-170.
     

  3. Ceroula, D. F., Pêgas, R. V., Nascimento, A. S., Nogueira, A., & Costa, F. R. (2025). Athletic capability index in pterosaurs: an initial assessment. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 97(suppl. 1), e20250489.
     

  4. Pêgas, R. V.; Aureliano, Tito; Holgado, Borja; Almeida, William B. S.; Santos, Claude L. A.; Ghilardi, Aline M. A regurgitalite reveals a new filter-feeding pterosaur from the Santana Group. Scientific Reports, v. 15, p. 37336, 2025.
     

  5. Pinheiro, Felipe L.; Kellner, Alexander W.A.; Silva, João L. Da; Duque, Rudah R.C.; Sayão, Juliana M.; Araújo, Esaú V. De; Costa, Fabiana R.; Buchmann, Richard; Cerqueira, Gabriela M.; Canejo, Lucas; Beccari, Victor; Bantim, Renan A.M.; Holgado, Borja; Pêgas, Rubi V. Cretaceous Pterosaurs of the Araripe Basin: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Update and Paleobiological Insights. Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciências, v. 97, p. e20250622, 2025.
     

  6. Pêgas, R. V.; Zhou, Xuanyu; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu. Azhdarchid pterosaur diversity in the Bayanshiree Formation, Upper Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. PeerJ, v. 13, p. e19711, 2025. 
     

  7. Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.; Navarro, Bruno A.; Marinho, Thiago S.; Pêgas, R. V. The first pterosaur from the Bauru Group: an azhdarchid from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Papers in Palaeontology, v. 11, p. e70039, 2025.
     

  8. Manitkoon, Sita; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Nonsrirach, Thanit; Warapeang, Prapasiri; Lauprasert, Komsorn; Deesri, Uthumporn; Tumpeesuwan, Sakboworn; Wongko, Kamonlak; Zhou, Xuanyu. First gnathosaurine (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous of eastern Thailand. Cretaceous Research, v. 173, p. 106135, 2025.
     

  9. Zhou, Xuanyu; Ikegami, Naoki; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Yoshinaga, Toru; Sato, Takahiro; Mukunoki, Toshifumi; Otani, Jun; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu. Reassessment of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen from the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan. Cretaceous Research, v. 167, p. 106046, 2025.
     

  10. Piazentin, Lucas C.; Navarro, Bruno A.; Pêgas, R.V.; Carvalho, Alberto B.; Zaher, Hussam. A new pterosaur mandible from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil, and its implications on the taxonomy of the genus Anhanguera (Pterosauria, Anhangueridae). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 165, p. 105684, 2025.
     

  11. Pêgas, R.V.. On the systematics and phylogenetic nomenclature of the Ornithocheiriformes (Pterosauria, Pteranodontoidea). Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 2025, p. 28.2.a25, 2025. 
     

  12. Griffin, Benjamin W.; Martin-Silverstone, Elizabeth; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Meilak, Erik Anthony; Costa, Fabiana R.; Palmer, Colin; Rayfield, Emily J. Modelling take-off moment arms in an ornithocheiraean pterosaur. PeerJ, v. 12, p. e17678, 2024.
     

  13. Silva, João Lucas; Bentes, Tabata; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Costa, Fabiana Rodrigues. A new anhanguerid pterosaur specimen from the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin (Lower Cretaceous, Northeastern Brazil). Historical Biology, v. 1, p. 1-22, 2024.
     

  14. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.. A taxonomic note on the tapejarid pterosaurs from the Pterosaur Graveyard site (Caiuá Group, ?Early Cretaceous of Southern Brazil): evidence for the presence of two species. Historical Biology, v. 1, p. 1-22, 2024.
     

  15. Bandeira, Kamila L. N.; Navarro, Bruno A.; Pêgas, R. V.; Brilhante, Natan S.; Costa, A. S. B.; De Souza, Lucy G.; Da Silva, Rafael C.; Gallo, Valéria. A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America. Historical Biology, v. 1, p. 1-42, 2024.
     

  16. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Zhou, Xuanyu; Jin, Xingsheng; Wang, Kai; Ma, Waisum. A taxonomic revision of the Sinopterus complex (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, with the new genus. PeerJ, v. 11, p. e14829, 2023.
     

  17. Souza, L. G., Pêgas, R. V., da Silva Lacerda, M. B., & Riff, D. (2023). Tales of long faces: piscivorous Archosauriformes and the evolutionary ways to form a fisher. In: Araújo, R. et al. Ruling Reptiles: Crocodylian Biology and Archosaur Paleobiology. Indiana Press, 2023.
     

  18. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Holgado, Borja; Ortiz David, Leonardo D.; Baiano, Mattia A.; Costa, Fabiana R.. On the pterosaur Aerotitan sudamericanus (Neuquén Basin, Upper Cretaceous of Argentina), with comments on azhdarchoid phylogeny and jaw anatomy. Cretaceous Research, v. 129, p. 104998, 2022.
     

  19. Griffin, Benjamin; Martin-Silverstone, Elizabeth; Demuth, Oliver; Pêgas, Rodrigo; Palmer, Colin; Rayfield, Emily. Constraining pterosaur launch: range of motion in the pectoral and pelvic girdles of a medium-sized ornithocheiraean pterosaur. Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society, v. 137, p. 250-266, 2022.
     

  20. Diele-Viegas, Luisa Maria; Sales, Lilian P.; Slobodian, Veronica; Virginio, Flávia; De Araújo Sousa, Shirliane; Pareja-Mejía, Daniela; Bacon, Christine D.; Mugarte, Allen S. X.; Amati-Martins, Iris; Dias-Silva, Fernanda; Araújo, Olivia G. S.; Nassif, Jann; Carvalho, Murillo; Luz, Camila; Soares, Bruno Eleres; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Souza, Lucy G.. Productivity in academia: When the rules determine the losers. Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, v. 10, p. 01-05, 2022.
     

  21. Pêgas, Rodrigo V; Costa, Fabiana R; Kellner, Alexander W A. Reconstruction of the adductor chamber and predicted bite force in pterodactyloids (Pterosauria). Zoological Journal of The Linnean Society, v. 2021, p. 1-34, 2021.
     

  22. Zhou, Xuanyu; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Ma, Waisum; Han, Gang; Jin, Xingsheng; Leal, Maria E.C.; Bonde, Niels; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu; Lautenschlager, Stephan; Wei, Xuefang; Shen, Caizhi; Ji, Shu?An. A new darwinopteran pterosaur reveals arborealism and an opposed thumb. Current Biology, v. 2021, p. 1-8, 2021. 
     

  23. Brum, Arthur; L. N. Bandeira, Kamila; Holgado, Borja; G. Souza, Lucy; V. Pêgas, Rodrigo; M. Sayão, Juliana; A. Campos, Diogenes; Kellner, Alexander. Palaeohistology and palaeopathology of an Aeolosaurini (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from Morro do Cambambe (Upper Cretaceous, Brazil). Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, v. 36, p. 1, 2021. 
     

  24. Bandeira, K. L. N.; Brum, Arthur S.; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Souza, L. G.; Pereira, P. V. L. G. C.; Pinheiro, A. E. P.. The first Jurassic theropod from the Sergi Formation, Jatobá Basin, Brazil. Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciencias, v. 93, p. 1-30, 2021. 
     

  25. Souza, Lucy G. De; Bandeira, Kamila L.N.; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Brum, Arthur S.; Machado, Rodrigo; Guilherme, Edson; Loboda, Thiago S.; Souza-Filho, Jonas P. De. The history, importance and anatomy of the specimen that validated the giant Purussaurus brasiliensis Barbosa-Rodrigues 1892 (Crocodylia: Caimaninae). Anais Da Academia Brasileira De Ciências, v. 93, p. 1-20, 2021. 
     

  26. Brum, Arthur S.; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Bandeira, Kamila L. N.; Souza, Lucy G.; Campos, Diogenes A.; Kellner, Alexander W. A.. A new unenlagiine (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil. Papers in Palaeontology, v. 2021, p. 1-25, 2021. 
     

  27. Shen, Caizhi; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Gao, Chunling; Kundrát, Martin; Zhang, Lijun; Wei, Xuefang; Zhou, Xuanyu. A new specimen of Sinopterus (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) from the Jiufotang Formation (Early Cretaceous, China). PeerJ, v. 9, p. e12360, 2021. 
     

  28. Wei, Xuefang; Pêgas, Rodrigo Vargas; Shen, Caizhi; Guo, Yanfang; Ma, Waisum; Sun, Deyu; Zhou, Xuanyu. , a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group. PeerJ, v. 9, p. e11161, 2021.
     

  29. Holgado, Borja; Pêgas, Rodrigo. A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 65, 2020. 
     

  30. Limaverde, Saulo; Pêgas, Rodrigo Vargas; Damasceno, Rafael; Villa, Chiara; Oliveira, Gustavo R.; Bonde, Niels; Leal, Maria E.C.. Interpreting character variation in turtles: Araripemys barretoi (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Araripe Basin, Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil. PeerJ, v. 8, p. e9840, 2020. 
     

  31. Holgado, Borja; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Canudo, José Ignacio; Fortuny, Josep; Rodrigues, Taissa; Company, Julio; Kellner, Alexander W. A.. On a new crested pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula and the radiation of the clade Anhangueria. Scientific Reports, v. 9, p. 1-10, 2019. 
     

  32. Zhou, Xuanyu; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Leal, Maria E.C.; Bonde, Niels. Nurhachius luei, a new istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province (China) and comments on the Istiodactylidae. PeerJ, v. 7, p. e7688, 2019. 
     

  33. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Holgado, Borja; Leal, Maria Eduarda C.. On Targaryendraco wiedenrothi gen. nov. (Pterodactyloidea, Pteranodontoidea, Lanceodontia) and recognition of a new cosmopolitan lineage of Cretaceous toothed pterodactyloids. Historical Biology, v. 1, p. 1-15, 2019. 
     

  34. Bandeira, Kamila L. N.; Brum, Arthur S.; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Cidade, Giovanne M.; Holgado, Borja; Cidade, André; De Souza, Rafael Gomes. The Baurusuchidae vs Theropoda record in the Bauru Group (Upper Cretaceous, Brazil): a taphonomic perspective. Journal Of Iberian Geology, v. 1698-6, p. 1-30, 2018. 
     

  35. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Costa, Fabiana R.; Kellner, Alexander W. A.. New information on the osteology and a taxonomic revision of the genus Thalassodromeus (Pterodactyloidea, Tapejaridae, Thalassodrominae). Journal Of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 38, p. e1443273, 2018.
     

  36. Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Leal, Maria E. C.; Damgaard, Jakob. A surprisingly derived hydrometrid (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha) from the Crato Formation, Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Historical Biology, v. 29, p. 1-8, 2017. 
     

  37. Leal, Maria E. C.; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Bonde, Niels; Kellner, Alexander W. A.. Cervical vertebrae of an enigmatic pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil). Geological Society Special Publication, v. 455, p. SP455.15, 2017.
     

  38. Pêgas, Rodrigo Vargas; Leal, Maria Eduarda De Castro; Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin. A Basal Tapejarine (Pterosauria; Pterodactyloidea; Tapejaridae) from the Crato Formation, Early Cretaceous of Brazil. PLoS One, v. 11, p. e0162692, 2016.
     

  39. Pêgas, Rodrigo Vargas. A Review on Animal Hybridization-s Role in Evolution and Conservation: Canis rufus (Audubon and Bachman) 1851-A Case Study. ISRN Zoology, v. 2013, p. 1-6, 2013.

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