| In my 2002 paper "Soft tissue preservation of the cranial crest of the pterosaur Germanodactylus from Solnhofen" (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:43-48), I described and illustrated the specimen MCZ 1886. The illustrations included a UV photograph of most of the specimen and an explanatory diagram of the same area. Space constraints prevented me from including additional figures; therefore, I present additional photographs of the specimen here. |
| Photo of the entire part slab of MCZ 1886 (image area is 271 x 103 mm). The skull and crest are preserved in right lateral view at the bottom. Note that the part slab is embedded in plaster (visible in the upper left and right corners and in a narrow band along the bottow) within a wooden frame (not shown). It is a scrappy specimen. As I noted in the paper, it has not been prepared at all, though there was a a repair, gluing shaft fragments to the proximal end of the first wing phalanx. |
| Close up of the crest and posterior part of the skull on the part slab (image area is 93 x 62 mm). The repair to the wing phalanx is visible in the upper right. The repair is quite sloppy, and the glue looks like animal hide glue, which suggests that it is an old repair. |
| Even closer close up of the crest and posterior part of the skull (image area is 59 x 32 mm). Note the different texture present on the soft tissue part of the cranial crest. Note also the whitish material adjacent to the superior margin of the crest, particularly above the orbit; it is the whitish material that flouresces most strongly under UV light. |
Close up of a color UV photograph of the crest and posterior part of the skull on the part slab.
Close up of a color UV photgraph of the crest and posterior part of the skull on the incomplete counterpart slab.