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"Pterodactylus" longicollum by ~Archosaurian:iconArchosaurian:

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Most likely doesn't belong to Pterodactylus.
This is a completely redone version of the skeletal labeled "Diopecephalus longicollum" in Pterosaurs of Late Jurassic Europe ("Diopecephalus" is now invalid).

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=Freakzter Feb 23, 2008, 1:49:55 PM
geez, such a tiny body!

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*jconway Feb 24, 2008, 3:46:51 AM
Very nice job. I see you've taken what said about the GSP styley skeletals on board.

Sure looks different to the Pterodactylus I did. My genericometer says "new genus".

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~apeman505 Feb 28, 2008, 8:26:42 PM
Oh! I have to ask, because I've never seen a fossil of a pterodactyl in person: The circle you have in the eye socket--is it a ring of bone or simply a convention of artists showing where the eye was? I have always wondered!

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~Archosaurian Feb 28, 2008, 10:42:14 PM
That's the sclerotic ring, a ring of bony plates that supports the eye that is found in many vertebrates, mammals and crocodiles being the only major groups in which they do not occur at all. Pterosaurs definitely had them though they aren't preserved very often simply because they do not articulate with the rest of he skeleton and are generally lost during decay.

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~Archosaurian Feb 28, 2008, 10:45:22 PM
I should also note that it is found inside the eye and the opening gives a good idea of the size of the iris and thus the visible part of the eye in animals that have them.

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~apeman505 Mar 2, 2008, 12:04:46 AM
Wow, inside the eye itself? That's way awesome!

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~EmperorDinobot Mar 7, 2008, 8:21:22 PM
I think it's a new genus. Pterodactylus is...well...different.
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