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Angela Palmer
‘Self Portrait’
‘Brain of the Artist’
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Found in 1873 near Solnhofen, Germany, this was the first fossil to show the complete wings of a pterosaur. Unearthed from a bed of limestone, this remarkably well-preserved skeleton belonged to Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, a long-tailed, dagger-toothed pterosaur from the Late Jurassic. The fine sediment fossilized not just the bones, but the tissues that formed the wing surface. The animal’s wings were partly folded, forming wrinkles that can still be seen.
See many more pterosaur fossils in the exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, now open at the Museum.
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Foxby Дмитрий Дешевых
Publication info New York :G.P. Putnam’s Sons,1928.
Contributing Library:
University of Connecticut Libraries
BioDiv. Library
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