[x]

deviantART

 

Creative Commons License
Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Details
Submitted: June 21, 2008
File Size: 195 KB
Image Size: 195 KB
Resolution: 2500×1768
Comments: 7
Favourites & Collections: 30 [who?]

Views
Total: 1,044
Today: 0

Downloads
Total: 78
Today: 0

Embed


Thumb

Artist's Comments

Pteranodon longiceps and Pteranodon sternbergi, both male and female.
[x]

Devious Comments

love 0 0 joy 1 1 wow 0 0 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0

Comments


I notice that you have both taxa and sexes for each with overbites. Does this actually hold true for all specimens, or even most?

--
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams (Last Chance to See)
From my references it seems to be the case for all specimens in which the jaws are preserved in their entirety.

--
Certified member of the scientific elite
Armchair Palaeontologist specializing in pterosaurs
Palaeontographer
Idiotbuster
Obscure/pointless information provider
Know-it-all
Genius
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.

--
"... 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
Nice one. Would make a great poster or display at a museum.
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.

--
Certified member of the scientific elite
Armchair Palaeontologist specializing in pterosaurs
Palaeontographer
Idiotbuster
Obscure/pointless information provider
Know-it-all
Genius
Never seen one with the squarish fin on its head before... Pretty cool!

--
... So Says JoH. :pirate:

Site Map