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This is a gallery of photos and information about pterosaur specimens and/or forgeries that were offered for sale and either are still in the hands of the sellers or have passed into the hands of private collectors and so have not ended up in a museum. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of any of them, but still thought it would be interesting to document them. At any rate, I do not know what happened to them and so as far as I am concerned they are missing, and they are unexploited in that as far as I know they have not been studied by any pterosaur worker. Click on the photos to open up web pages with more photos, additional information, and comments on the specimens. If anyone can add useful information about a specimen, please let me know. |
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Offered for sale on Ebay in January 2007 for $6888 (+ $170 shipping). It was said to be from the Cretaceous of Liaoxi, Liaoning Province, China. |  |
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Offered for sale on Ebay in January 2007 for $7792 (+ $203 shipping). It was said to be from the Cretaceous of Liaoxi, Liaoning Province, China. |  |
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Offered for sale on Ebay in January 2007 for $5800 (+ $171 shipping). It was said to be from the Jurassic of Liaoning Province, China. |  |
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Offered for sale on Ebay in January 2007 for $5750 (+ $158 shipping). It was said to be from the Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. |  |
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An image sent to me by a colleague. |  |
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Offered for sale by a commercial dealer. Said to be Pterodactylus elegans from Eichstatt [sic], Germany. |  |
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Offered for sale by a commercial dealer. Said to be Pterodactylus sp. from Painten, Germany. |  |
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Offered for sale by a commercial dealer. Said to be Pterodactylus kochi. |  |
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Images of a Rhamphorhynchus muensteri presumably offered for sale by a commercial dealer. |  |
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Image of a Rhamphorhynchus muensteri presumably offered for sale by a commercial dealer. |  |
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Sold by a commercial dealer. Said to be Scaphognathus sp. from Painten, Germany. |  |
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Offered for sale by a commercial dealer. Said to be pterosaur vertebra from the Wealden of Sussex, England. |  |
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Sold at auction for $105,750 in December 2005. Said to be Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi from Solnhofen, Germany. |  |
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Sold at auction for $48,000 in March 2006. Said to be Pterodactylus kochi from Solnhofen, Germany. |  |