Torukjara is an extinct genus of tapejarin pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous "Pterosaur Graveyard" (Caiuá Group) of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, T. bandeirae, known from several specimens. The Torukjara fossil material was originally assigned to Caiuajara, but several anatomical differences indicate that both similar species coexisted in the ecosystem.
Torukjara is an extinct genus of tapejarin pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous "Pterosaur Graveyard" (Caiuá Group) of Brazil. The genus contains a single species, T. bandeirae, known from several specimens. The Torukjara fossil material was originally assigned to Caiuajara, but several anatomical differences indicate that both similar species coexisted in the ecosystem.
== Discovery and naming == The Torukjara fossil material was discovered in the Pterosaur Graveyard locality which likely belongs to the Rio Paraná Formation (Caiuá Group) of Cruzeiro do Oeste, Paraná State, Brazil. The holotype specimen (CP.V 8175), discovered in 2014, consists of a partial skeleton including a well-preserved skull. This specimen was first described in 2022 as belonging to the coeval Caiuajara.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).