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Published: 2008-06-11 08:00:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 3436; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 353
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Just a ramphorynchus. It's a particularly under (over) rated animal. It's very strange, and there's thousands of similar species scattered all over Europe.Related content
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Every other pterosaur is a Rhamphorhynchus, at least in popular media (the others are Pteranodon, then there's that upstart Quetzalcoatlus).
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That's what I meant by overrated.
Underrated is that fact that people don't know its name 
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Yet it has fewer syllables than Tyrannosaurus. I think it's the Rh, ph, rhy, and ch in there that shove the train of thought off its tracks.
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I am very impressed by your knowledge and artistic talent.
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Very nice, how teethy it is!
Um, are rhamphorynchi digitigrade like that? I wouldn't be surprised if they were, it's just I"ve always seen them plantigrade..
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I believe most pterosaurs, if not all, were plantigrade. But that doesn't stop them from going on tippy-toes!
I used this: [link]
See how he's about to achieve flight? I did take the plantigradism into consideration, but I thought he'd look more dramatic lifting his rear area higher.
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Well in terms of their front limbs, I see some pterosaurs with a long wrist-to-knuckle zone, like a horse, and some with a very short one, like a bat...
but in terms of hind limbs.. I've only ever seen them very short. This picture is interesting, the rhynch definitely has kinda long feet 
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Yeah, Mike used to draw them like that, but that isn't how they launched (pterosaurs almost certainly launched quadrupedally). Also, the fifth toe should be incorporated into the uropatagium.
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What do you mean? Parallel to the other toes?
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Somewhat, then curving back. It would be incorporated into the membrane behind the legs.
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Very good drawing!
I'm not specialist when it comes to pterosaurs but I think the body is too long.
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The body of Ramphorynchus is kind of long compared to later pterosaurs (especially Azdarchids o.o)
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Like I said I'm not specialist.
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It's ok...it's ok...no one's perfect *pats his shoulder*
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I've read some on those. I've always wanted to poke one. o3o
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I heard about this Pterasaur in a book once, great picture anyhow. Very accurate.
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