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Some few Pterodactylus reconstructions of different points of time and sources, including the ancient mammalian first interpretation, the distorted and broken Peters one, and finally the most recent form.ΒRelated content
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you definitly should do this with megalosaurus and iguanodon
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It's funny; the mammalian one was, iirc, discovered before Sordes was discovered; the guy who came up with it just kind of...assumed that pterosaurs were furry and warm-blooded and thus, could not have been reptiles, so he depicted them as mammals.
And years later, he was semi-vindicated! Pterosaurs were indeed furry and warm-blooded...they just weren't mammals!
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It wasn't really assumed to have fur it's because when they discovered Sordes there were traces of "coats with a thickness comparable to many Mesozoic mammals"
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
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The Mammal!Pterodactylus was conceived before Sordes was discovered.
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Oops my mistake! I've seem to have gotten my dates mixed up, statement redacted. Originally described as an aquatic animal because of its look for supporting membranes then changed to a flying reptile and then some Samual Thomas dude thought (Along with a lot of other people) that birds were mammals that lost some of their features and pterosaurs were ancestral forms of birds? At least we don't have the restorations of the colugo looking ones anymore.
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Ah, nice to have things cleared up then!
I had no idea Samuel Thomas came up with that thinking birds and pterosaurs were mammals, though! It's strange to see how far things have come, isn't it?
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Accurate one: I will eat u!
Inaccurate one: no, I will eat u and him!
Peters one: SHOOT, I NEED TO FLY RUN!!!!!
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El Pterosaurio de Peter le veo como Goofy
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Si el personaje de disney
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Thank you
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huh. For a Peters reconstruction, that's surprisingly conservative
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Yeah, no gonna lie but I was going to add it more of its characteristic and extravagant ornaments but I decided to preserve it as in the silhouette Β which is very conservative, and keeping theΒ awkward postureΒ
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Who is this "Peters" person?
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rationalwiki.org/wiki/David_Peβ¦
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Oh god, I remember! It's all coming back, the nonsense reconstructions, the atrocious attitude, the questionable fanfictions...
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No, I think you're thinking of John Faa. David Peters is different. And better, if you'll believe it.
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During the 1800 Pterodactylus had someΒ interpretations due to the weirdeness of such new creature for scientist, which included this flying marsupial mammal form
Β archosaurmusings.files.wordpreβ¦
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Really cool seeing all these reconstructions of Pterodactylus.
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Your welcome.
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