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I have no idea if this is new info or if I should
even be posting it but on the off chance that it could be of interest to people
here I will.
In my paper this morning they had an article about
the two new european pterosaurs that were reported here recently. What I
found interesting though were these qoutes about the skull of the Romanian
creature.
"The team was thrilled to study the pterosaur's
skull; usually such skulls are too lightweight and fragile to withstand the
crushing pressure of rock. But the Romanian pterosaur had a surprisingly
sturdy noggin, filled with empty spaces seperated by bony walls."
"'It's a very strange kind of bony tissue which
must have been quite light and at the same time quite strong,' says Dr.
Buffetaut, who described the discovery at the Toulouse meeting."
"He estimated that the skull must have measured 10
feet long - 4 feet more then the Big Bend fossil's skull."
Thus it seems that the skull isn't complete but
that enough of it is there to estimate its length as well as make comments about
its inner structure which makes me curious as to how much of the skull they
exactly found. The article also states that it and Spanish fossil may
have had larger wingspans then known Quetzalcoatlus though only by a
yard or so.
Hope I haven't wasted your
time.
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