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/
TLS04E07 The Origins of Paleontology
S04E06 Growing Dinosaurs
S04E05 The Biggest Dinosaurs
S04E04 Dinosaur Farts (and Scansoriopterygids)
S04E03 Dinosaur Papers
S04E02 Dinosaur social groups
S04E01 Tyrannosaurs
S04 Trailer - Series starts Wednesday June 2nd
S03E09 BONUS Chlolophyller
S03E08 Your Dinosaur Questions Answered!
S03E07 Dinosaur Evolutionary Relationships
S03E06 Dinosaur Species and Taxonomy
S03E05 Dinosaur Films
S03E04 Jurassic Park
S03E03 Iguanodon
S03E02 Pterosaurs
S03E01 Spinosaurus Megasode!
S03E00 Trailer (with a Vengeance)
TLS02 BONUS DINOSAUR! ANKYLOSAURUS and friends.
TLS02E08 Dinosaur Questions 2
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