On a 19th Century Pterodactylus (Pterosauria) specimen held in the Natural History Museum of La Rochelle,France |
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| Authors: | Romain Vullo,Jean-Franç ois Heil,Michè le Dunand |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoire géosciences, UMR CNRS 6118, campus de Beaulieu, université de Rennes-1, 263, avenue du Général-Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France;2. Muséum d’histoire naturelle de La Rochelle, 28, rue Albert-1er, 17000 La Rochelle, France |
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| Abstract: | A new specimen of the pterosaur Pterodactylus, purchased in the second half of the 19th Century by the Natural History Museum of La Rochelle and still held in that institution, is described. This previously unreported and almost complete specimen is one of the very few original pterosaur fossils from Solnhofen present in the French historical palaeontological collections. It corresponds to a large adult individual displaying some interesting anatomical details as well as a possible healed fracture of the tibia. |
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| Keywords: | Pterodactylus Pterosauria Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk Historical collections |
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