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12 minutes ago, Troodon said:

Since Ive posted that tooth I have more questions than answers.

Not much is published and the only suggested Pterosaur from there Rhamphorhynchus sp but those teeth are not S shaped like yours and mine.  So I don't know, they can be fish but again nothing is published other than Gar being present.

 

Thanks for the information.

 

It's difficult indeed :headscratch:. I always thought the tooth was pterosaur.

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8 minutes ago, Vieira said:

 

Thanks for the information.

 

It's difficult indeed :headscratch:. I always thought the tooth was pterosaur.

Can you take it to the museum in Lourinhã? 

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On 8.6.2019 at 11:09 PM, belemniten said:

Some pretty cool stuff @KansasFossilHunter!

 

I was able to find some pteroaur stuff too in the last weeks. 

Firstly a worn 6 cm long flight phalanx:

 

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Another phalanx I guess with a length of 11 cm:

 

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And my best find:

 

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A humerus and some other pteroaaur bones!

 

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All finds are from the lower Jurassic from Holzmaden (Germany)

That second Fossil is defenitely a Humerus and a Metacarpal. The Humerus has an enlarged Deltapectoral crest only found in Nyctosaurids and Rhamphorhynchids. Due to Nyctosaurs being Late Cretaceous it obviously isnt one. Considering that Dorygnathus is the only Rhamphorhynchid from Holzmaden, it likely is to be one. The Phalanx also seems to be a Rhamphorhynchid but it's hard to tell.

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On 25.3.2019 at 1:32 PM, caterpillar said:

Pterosaurs tracks (hands and feet) from southwest France

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What age are these? They look similar to the Pteraichnus Tracks from Wierzbica in Poland which are Ctenochasmatid in origin.

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2 hours ago, Sassy PaleoNerd said:

That second Fossil is defenitely a Humerus and a Metacarpal. The Humerus has an enlarged Deltapectoral crest only found in Nyctosaurids and Rhamphorhynchids. Due to Nyctosaurs being Late Cretaceous it obviously isnt one. Considering that Dorygnathus is the only Rhamphorhynchid from Holzmaden, it likely is to be one. The Phalanx also seems to be a Rhamphorhynchid but it's hard to tell.

Thank you very much for the ID help! 

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Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

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i saw this thread pop up today and thought I would contribute. A partial Pterosaur bone from Smoky Hill Chalk. Would have been a good sized animal I believe. We label this as a Pteranodon for our programs though officially it would be Pterosaur indet. Either way, it is bone I am happy to have and one the kids will dig.

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13 hours ago, Sassy PaleoNerd said:

What age are these? They look similar to the Pteraichnus Tracks from Wierzbica in Poland which are Ctenochasmatid in origin.

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French tracks are from lower tithonian level

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1 hour ago, caterpillar said:

 

French tracks are from lower tithonian level

That identification might fit then. I'd just broaden it a little to ctenochasmatoid. We know what the Wierzbica Tracks are due to associatted coprolites with contents that show filter feeding ;)

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6 hours ago, fossilsonwheels said:

i saw this thread pop up today and thought I would contribute. A partial Pterosaur bone from Smoky Hill Chalk. Would have been a good sized animal I believe. We label this as a Pteranodon for our programs though officially it would be Pterosaur indet. Either way, it is bone I am happy to have and one the kids will dig.

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I think you can restrict this to Pteranodonta indet. there are no other Pterosaur from that Locality besides Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus

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2 hours ago, Sassy PaleoNerd said:

I think you can restrict this to Pteranodonta indet. there are no other Pterosaur from that Locality besides Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus

Cool. Thanks for the information 

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Thought i would update this thread after a while with a Pterosaur humerus bone i have. It is from the Phosphate mines in Morocco, dated about 67mya, 13.5cm long and is from the small Nyctosaurid Alcione Elanius.

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Reference image of an Alcione humerus that i compared the fossil to for identification.

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5 minutes ago, msantix said:

Pterosaur humerus bone

Very cool piece indeed. I bet it displays very nicely too. Thanks for remembering my thread. Bobby 

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23 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

Very cool piece indeed. I bet it displays very nicely too. Thanks for remembering my thread. Bobby 

 

Yeah i have it displayed next to my Pteranodon humerus so it sort of cool to have this fossil. I love this thread because it is a great chance for people on the forum to show any Pterosaur fossils they might have, and there have been some amazing fossils shown already!.

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On 27.3.2020 at 7:51 AM, msantix said:

Thought i would update this thread after a while with a Pterosaur humerus bone i have. It is from the Phosphate mines in Morocco, dated about 67mya, 13.5cm long and is from the small Nyctosaurid Alcione Elanius.

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Reference image of an Alcione humerus that i compared the fossil to for identification.

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 To me it looks more like a humerus from Barbaridactylus grandis.

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12 hours ago, Sassy PaleoNerd said:

 To me it looks more like a humerus from Barbaridactylus grandis.

Interesting, can i ask what leads you to believe that? is it due to the humerus head being more rounded? 

The image i found of a humerus attributed to Barbaridactylus Grandis (link below) does indeed look similar.

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663 (Longrich NR, Martill DM, Andres B. 2018)

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When you post an image found on the web, you must indicate the source (either by quoting the site, or by putting a link) to pay tribute to the work of the one who made it ;)

 

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Donated these to a University for study about two years ago. Two different species of pterosaur humeri found in close proximity to eachother in Texas. 

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10 hours ago, msantix said:

Interesting, can i ask what leads you to believe that? is it due to the humerus head being more rounded? 

The image i found of a humerus attributed to Barbaridactylus Grandis (link below) does indeed look similar.

 

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2001663 (Longrich NR, Martill DM, Andres B. 2018)

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More so how the "stem" of the deltapectoral crest has no curve, and looks rather rectangular, unlike how it looks in Alcione.

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I'm going through a pterosaur spell at the moment, so figured I'd give this thread a bump with four of my own recent ones.

 

1 - A Russian pterosaur from Kursk, Russia

 

2 - A Rhamphorhynchus tooth from Germany

 

3 - A Triassic pterosaur tooth from Aust Cliffs in the UK

 

4 - A small pterosaur bone in two pieces from Hastings Beds, UK. I'm not going to repair it--I find it quite interesting in two bits as it shows the hollowness inside, which is quite cool.

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On 18/12/2020 at 2:42 PM, FF7_Yuffie said:

I'm going through a pterosaur spell at the moment, so figured I'd give this thread a bump with four of my own recent ones.

 

3 - A Triassic pterosaur tooth from Aust Cliffs in the UK

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Lovely examples. Do you know what deposit this tooth is from at Aust? I know Dimorphodon is known from the Overlying Jurassic Blue Lias but I haven't heard of any Triassic Rhaetian pterosaur material from there. If it is that's a really cool find. 

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1 hour ago, BentonlWalters said:

Lovely examples. Do you know what deposit this tooth is from at Aust? I know Dimorphodon is known from the Overlying Jurassic Blue Lias but I haven't heard of any Triassic Rhaetian pterosaur material from there. If it is that's a really cool find. 

 

Thanks

 

It's from the Rhaetian beds there. The seller has only ever found two of these pterosaur teeth and doesn't know of anyone else finding any. I messaged the Natural History Museum to find out a bit, apparently just fragmentary remains of pterosaurs have been found in the Triassic bone bed with no specific species.

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8 hours ago, paulyb135 said:

Here’s my input:

 

an ultra rare Pterosaur tooth from the Isle of Wight 

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What species is that from? I have one IoW pterosaur tooth, but it is about half the size.

 

Unusual one--- havent seen any that size from there. Very cool.

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