Missing and Unexploited Pterosaur 004


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The slab is roughly 70 by 40 cm. Unfortunately, all the photos are rather washed out and difficult to interpret. The specimen seems to be preserved in ventral view based on the appearance of the skull and the ribs. I find the right wing confusing. There might be a scapulocoracoid present. The humerus is displaced posterolaterally. The wing seems to include both radius and ulna, and all four wing phalanges. But then the left wing bit that looks like a scapulocoracoid on the right seems to be part of the humerus on the left. The left wing wp1 is oddly bent, and some wing phlanges are missing.







The posterior part of the skull looks as though it is preservd in ventral view, but notice the teeth anterior to the line across the skull.







Close up of the head and neck.





Close up of the neck and trunk. The ribbish bits look rather like gastralia, but it is not clear that there is a sternum anterior to them.





Close up of the trunk and hindlimbs. Notice that there is no evidence of a tail.

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