Skiphosoura bavarica Variant:Hand-painted especialmente de la Formación Oldman

especialmente de la Formación Oldman

Snout-tail length 265 mm

thick tail

It was a formidable predator

strong limbs adapted for quadrupedal locomotion

Skiphosoura bavarica Variant:Hand-painted especialmente de la Formación OldmanSkiphosoura bavarica is an extinct pterodactyl pterosaur from the Late Jurassic, recently described from an exceptionally complete fossil from the Mrnsheim Formation ( Dritter 's Kieselflinz layer) in a limestone deposit near Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. The holotype (LF 4157) was discovered in 2015 and prepared using modern techniques that have preserved a significant portion of its bones in three dimensions, a rare occurrence in pterosaurs due to