Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuş Ciula Formation, an outcropping in Transylvania, Romania.
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That’s another plane, right?
- Not exactly.

Quetzalcoatlus lawsoni

(Based on the skeletal by Brennon Valdez)

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I'm glad that it looks like the Quetzalcoatlus in Jurassic World Dominion is being hyped as a massive threat because yea Azhdarchidae pterosaurs were the stuff of fucking nightmares

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and I examined the skeletal proportions, cranial anatomy and sedimentological setting of and other and concluded that they were strongly adapted for quadrupedal walking in terrestrial settings... 2/n

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Our view of what and other were like mostly has its genesis in Witton & Naish (2008). Azhdarchids are the most distinctive and unusual of and views on how they might have lived have varied considerably (vintage images shown here!)... 1/n

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Azhdarchid colors and fluff practice for for an upcoming piece

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quetzalcoatlus just got the most literature of any azhdarchid ever so what if we looked at the other ones too

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The Quetz Monograph Lives and Other News on Azhdarchid Pterosaurs -- a new roundup of news at .... https://t.co/YHFf2P9npV

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An Azhdarchid, chilling around at the same time, first time swimming through the water in a cold, frozen world.

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They didn't have much feathers but Azhdarchids walked on their wings! And the Caihong Juji had very armlike wings

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Hatzegopteryx thambema

(Based on the skeletal by Sassy PaleoNerd)

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It's So I’d like to talk about my latest contribution, a paper on Aerotitan! It is based on a controversial jaw tip: it has been considered as either an azhdarchid upper jaw, azhdarchid lower jaw, or thalassodromine upper jaw (as the sister-group of Alanqa) +

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If you really wanna blow his mind, you could show him a picture of Pterodaustro, or any azhdarchid for that matter. Here's an Arambourgiania compared to a t.rex :)

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azhdarchid vibes. awful creatures. i love them.

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Cloud practice with an added (inaccurate) azhdarchid.
I better get drawing again

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Hey, hey, it's time for yet another

Today'S NDofW is... Azhdarchidae!

Some species of this pterosaur group were one of the biggest flying creatures to ever exist! Their wingspan could achieve around 10 meters!

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