Perhaps the best known, and most often misrepresented, pterosaur is Pteranodon. It has become the archetypal pterosaur and is always in the background of every Mesozoic scene (especially with T. rex) to let you know that the pterosaurs are out there. But aside from being quite big and having a funky headcrest (like all the best pterosaurs do) it’s an animal that is constantly overlooked even though we have more than a thousand specimens of it to work from. That’s an odd combination so it’s time that Pteranodon got some love and we took a look at one of the best known and most studied pterosaurs.
Links:
Mark Witton’s blog post about the taxonomic confusion and identities of Pteranodon specimens https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-pteranodon-complex-and-dismantling.html
Dave’s blog post about the untimely end to one with a shark’s tooth in its neck. https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/pteranodon-vs-cretoxyrhina/
TLS09E01 Displaying Dinosaurs
TLS08E08 Were T.Rex 70 percent bigger?
TLS08E07 Chewing Triceratops with Ali Nabavizadeh
TLS8E06 Biomechanics of Dinosaur Motion
TLS08E05 Sauropodcast
TLS08E04 The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
TLS08E03 British Iguanodontids
TLS08E02 Black Market fossils and Ornithocheirid pterosaurs
TLS08E01 Tyrannosaurus Bites
TL Bonus Jurassic pterosaur: Dearc Sgiathanach
TLS07E08 Did Pterosaurs Squawk?
TLS07E07 How Science Works
TLS07E06 Working with dinosaurs
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TLS07E03 Azhdarchids
TLS07E02 Pterosaurs in Motion
TLS07E01 Pterodactylus
TL BONUS Dinosaur Education
TLS06E08 Dancing Dinosaurs and Bat Noses
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