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For here's of Rhamphorhynchus creating Rhamphichnus, simultaneously also creating a sentence with far too many "h"'s. It would be neat to explore more non-pterodactyloid terrestrial locomotion in art, but time is never on my side.

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2023-03-03

Was thinking back to HTTYD and how Toothless's flight was affected when he lost his tail fin(amazing smeer frame by the way)
Would sth similar happen to non pterodactyloid pterosaurs if their tail structres where damaged?They must have had some use other than display and signals

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2023-01-12

Did you know there's a pterosaur named after Avatar (the film)?

"Ikrandraco avatar" was an Early Cretaceous pterodactyloid from North China, with characteristic deep crest on the lower jaw, similar to one seen on the flying creatures (Ikrans) from the Sci-Fi blockbuster.

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2022-12-22

Nyctosaurus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in North America. It is famous for its ridiculously weird crest. This is the approximate size of an adult Nyctosaurus

This is a spot illustration for my licensing library

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2022-10-20

Happy This handsome fellow is Altmuehlopterus - a Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur from Germany. It's been known to science since the 1850s with an almost complete skeleton known!

🎨: Art by

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2022-09-14

As you might have noticed.... I think non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs are rather neat.

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2022-06-22

Thinking about early Jurassic pterodactyloid from Argentina, Wenupteryx uzi

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2022-06-20

Dearc (green), as it compares to other non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs [not to scale]

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2022-06-16

Oxfordian Fauna of the Shishugou Formation, Part 1: Kryptodrakon and Aorun.

Kryptodrakon is a smallish basal pterodactyloid, while Aorun was a likely basal Alvarezsauroid. Both were small, generalist feeders whose groups legacies will go on to produce myriad bizarre forms.

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2022-04-27

Azhdarcho

A pterodactyloid with a 4 m wingspan, its known from fragmentary remains including the long neck vertebrae that characterizes its family

ALT: Azhdarcho is named after giant flying snake like creatures from persian mythology, they grew in the sea from regular snakes

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2021-12-09

random pterodactyloid inspired dragon and paravian griffin that I won't be finishing anytime soon.

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2021-11-21

The first detailed reconstruction of the adductor musculature of the pterodactyloid enables estimations of for 9 species of with implications for hypotheses of potential dietary habits.

In our Oct issue: https://t.co/JMs3kytBOl

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2021-10-26

Nyctosaurus

A small pterodactyloid with a surprisingly long antler like crest, it likely flew for very long distances without flapping, even losing its non flight fingers

ALT: At some point Marsh tough that the name was preoccupied and renamed it nyctodactylus, he was wrong

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2021-10-19

The heads of several extinct pterodactyloids.

(Credit )

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2021-10-11

What the heck: one more post because it's the weekend. Here's Pterodactylus walking along, showing how pterodactyloids held their limbs when on the ground. I really tucked the membranes in here: I wonder if we generally make them a little slack.

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2021-10-02

F4U Corsair & a non pterodactyloid pterosaur

[art by M Witton]

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2021-09-26

New paper!

Jahn Hornung, Benjamin Kear, , and me describe a new pterodactyloid mandible from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany.
https://t.co/a8Y6WYqpij
Life reconstruction by Markus Bühler.
(1/5)

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2021-08-27