I notice that you have both taxa and sexes for each with overbites. Does this actually hold true for all specimens, or even most?
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From my references it seems to be the case for all specimens in which the jaws are preserved in their entirety.
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Excellent! Thanx for putting this up--it's a great addition to my reference library. A question, maybe a dumb one: The posterior prong on the ventral surface of the sagittal crest in P. longiceps... I've noticed it in other reconstructions and wondered if it's analogous to our external occipital protuberance making it part of the nuchal line. If it were, the contour of the neck would be thicker dorsoventrally, wouldn't it? Do you have any info on that? Just a general wondering.
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Fantastic, I've really enjoyed watching the progression of how you render pterosaur skeletals. Out of curiosity, do you think there is not a throat pouch extending from the foreshortened ventral margin of the mandible, or are you only rendering muscles (and hence not the throat pouch)?
Thanks! I'm only rendering muscles and do not thik there was a throat pouch. Bennett covered the idea of a throat pouch in his dissertation and found it unlikely based on the structure of the jaw which appears to have been fairly static and had a distinctive shelf covering the region dorsal to the symphysis, and of the hyoid which was heavily reduced and could not play any role in supporting a throat pouch.
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A question, maybe a dumb one: The posterior prong on the ventral surface of the sagittal crest in P. longiceps... I've noticed it in other reconstructions and wondered if it's analogous to our external occipital protuberance making it part of the nuchal line. If it were, the contour of the neck would be thicker dorsoventrally, wouldn't it? Do you have any info on that? Just a general wondering.
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"... to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." ~Issac Newton
I'm only rendering muscles and do not thik there was a throat pouch. Bennett covered the idea of a throat pouch in his dissertation and found it unlikely based on the structure of the jaw which appears to have been fairly static and had a distinctive shelf covering the region dorsal to the symphysis, and of the hyoid which was heavily reduced and could not play any role in supporting a throat pouch.
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