Yet another #pterosaur named by famous paleontologist Harry Seeley, Ornithostoma hails from the Early Cretaceous Cambridge Greensand Formation. #science #fossils https://t.co/4OxXZI6kLR
Uktenadactylus was named after Uktena, a giant horned snake from Cherokee mythology. #fossils #science #pterosaur https://t.co/ZCY2yMHDFa
Paleontologists found Kepodactylus rather unexpectedly while digging up a Stegosaurus in the famous Morrison Formation of Colorado. #pterosaur #fossils #science https://t.co/rq5RoCxTqm
Found in Cretaceous rocks in Romania in the 1980s, Eurolimnornis was originally thought to be a bird. #science #fossils #pterosaur https://t.co/1znPjEtR5m
Diopecephalus is from the famous Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone Formation of Germany. #science #fossils #pterosaur https://t.co/CsbmaXXOh3
See, dsungaripterids aren't that ugly, after all. Meet Lonchognathosaurus. #pterosaurs #fossils #science https://t.co/aGv8TYhN9S
Hongshanopterus is named for the Neolithic Hongshan Culture of China whose people lived more than 5,000 years ago. #pterosaur #science #fossils https://t.co/sVM12BlqA2
Renowned paleontologist Sir Richard Owen named Coloborhynchus back in 1874. #pterosaur #science #fossils https://t.co/uq6i8sofdC
Yixianopterus is a mysterious #pterosaur from a strange group of flying reptiles known as the lonchodectids. #science #fossils #paleontology https://t.co/xQ45aOqT3l
Scientists named Alamodactylus after, you guessed it, the Texas symbol of independence otherwise known as the Alamo. #pterosaur #science #fossils https://t.co/u5Ek8DxNge