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The specific name ("long-snouted") refers to the long snout of the pterosaur. One specimen is known; a complete skeleton, it was found in the Huangbanjigou locality of the Yixian Formation , and it is catalogued as GLGMV 0001 in the Guilin Longshan Geological Museum in Guangxi , China. [ 1 ]
The anatomy of pterosaurs was highly modified from their reptilian ancestors by the adaptation to flight. Pterosaur bones were hollow and air-filled, like those of birds. This provided a higher muscle attachment surface for a given skeletal weight. The bone walls were often paper-thin.
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Skeletal diagram of Mimodactylus Mimodactylus is a genus of istiodactyliform pterosaur that lived in what is now Lebanon during the Late Cretaceous , 95 million years ago. The only known specimen was discovered in a limestone quarry near the town of Hjoula .
Ferrodraco ("Iron Dragon" after the ironstone the fossil was found in) is an extinct genus of anhanguerid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, [1] containing the single species F. lentoni.
Ornithodesmus (meaning "bird link") is a genus of small, dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Isle of Wight in England, dating to about 125 million years ago.The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum (a series of vertebrae fused to the hip bones), initially believed to come from a bird [1] and subsequently identified as a pterosaur.
Due to the skeleton's initial description only being partial, a more detailed description of was made in 2005 by Currie and Eva Koppelhus. [7] [2] This partial skeleton, specimen TMP 1992.83, lacks the skull and consists of a fourth cervical (neck) vertebra, a rib, a humerus, a pteroid (wing) bone, a fourth metacarpal, a tibia and a metatarsal ...
Shenzhoupterus is based on holotype HGM 41HIII-305A (Henan Geological Museum at Zhengzhou), the articulated skull and skeleton of a single individual, with a wingspan of 1.4 meters (4.6 feet). Shenzhoupterus lacked teeth, and had a crest on its skull that arched over the eyes and terminated in a small point toward the back of the head.