An amateur paleontologist found this controversial #pterosaur in a locality called Bob's Vacation Site in 1991. Its genus name means "chicken" in the Blackfoot language, a nod to its original but mistaken identity as a bird. #science #fossils https://t.co/WS3rtAuoUq
Elanodactylus has some unique skeletal features among pterosaurs and evolved long neck vertebrae convergent with another group, the azhdarchids. #pterosaur #fossils #science https://t.co/PyfxWV07cv
Radiodactylus is perhaps the only #pterosaur found at a nuclear reactor site. #fossils #science https://t.co/m9spEfZLbZ
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
The fossilized jaw bone of Siroccopteryx has a strange appearance and contains pits that paleontologists suggest are the result of abscesses draining after a major injury. #pterosaur #fossil #science https://t.co/LN9aorwZVm
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