#Pteranodon longiceps

[moochingvanze]

A while ago I (digitally) painted this Pteranodon longiceps, pretty proud of it! I used a skeletal and a photo of a sea bird on the beach as references.

[dragonsdenstudiosofficial]

The Pizza Knight Saves The Princess is a fantasy-comedy choose-your-own-adventure-style visual novel being developed by Dragon's Den Studios. Set on the planet Comestibla, where everything & everyone is made of food, we play as the Pizza Knight as he tries to save his beloved Water Ice Princess from the castle of the evil Chocolate Count. You can download the demo for free HERE: https://dragons-den-studios.itch.io/the-pizza-knight-saves-the-princess

Over the course of this month I'll be posting some of the game's art to this blog! This image is a sneak peak of content only available in the full release!

This image depicts a flashback that the Pizza Knight has to his youth after drinking one of the potions. This memory, taking place ten years before canon, depicts a scene from the knight's years as apprentice knight to the Skim Milk Knight when they visited the inn of Flying Jacob, a veteran of the AU wars made from, well, Flying Jacob (a Swedish casserole made from chicken, cream, chili sauce, bananas, roasted peanuts, and bacon). While the Skim Milk Knight talks of bygone days with his host, the Pizza Knight encounters one of Flying Jacob's tamed Pteranodonuts, who is begging for a sample of the knight's lingonberries. The sodas in the foreground are based on a discontinued line of sodas from Sweden called Kristall that I loved as a kid, particularly their pear flavor.

[amnhnyc]

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a dinosaur? Nope to all of the above. This Fossil Friday, let’s talk about pterosaurs—the first animals with bones to evolve powered flight. Though they were related to dinosaurs, pterosaurs evolved on a separate branch of the reptile family tree. They ruled the skies for more than 150 million years, evolving into dozens of different species. Some were as small as a paper airplane while others, like Pteranodon pictured here in the Museum's Hall of Late Dinosaurs circa 1940-1960, had a wingspan of more than 20 ft (6 m).

Along with other large pterosaurs, Pteranodon longiceps was first discovered in western Kansas, near a chalk formation called Monument Rocks. Today the region is dry, but at the time this species lived, about 85 million years ago, central North America was covered by a seaway. This large pterosaur likely spent its days flying over the sea. Unlike early species of pterosaurs, Pteranodon and many other Cretaceous-era species didn’t have any teeth. In fact, its genus name means “winged and toothless,” while the second name, longiceps, means “long-headed.”

Today, you can find Pteranodon in the Hall of Vertebrate Origins. We're open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm! Plan your visit.

Photo: Image no. ptc-217 © AMNH Library

[makairodonx]

Two male and one female Pteranodon longiceps soar over the heads of a pair of Styxosaurus browni 85 million years ago in what is now the Niobrara Formation of Kansas

[saritapaleo]

Archovember is here once again! Looooots of theropods this year. Also a lot more dinosaurs in general than other archosaurs. Sorry. There were just too many I wanted to add!

I also apologize that there are several redraws in this list… I included a couple animals I’ve drawn for past Archovembers that I wasn’t quite happy with (7 to be exact, oop). If you’ve been drawing along since the beginning and don’t feel like drawing a repeat, feel free to substitute a related species!

For new folks: this is my “Draw Dinovember” list that I expanded out to include other archosauriforms. I started doing this a few years ago to challenge myself to draw species I’ve never drawn before and/or ones that don’t get a lot of attention. Feel free to join in! You can do the whole list, just the dinosaurs (the names in green), just the pterosaurs (orange), just the pseudosuchians (blue), just the 3 oddballs (red), just your favorites, just ones you’ve never drawn before, pick one blindly, roll a D20 and a D10 and draw the sum of whichever numbers you get, etc. Just make sure they’re posted on or after their specific day! You can use #Archovember or #Archovember2024, as those are the tags I follow. Be as detailed or as sketchy as you’d like! I’ll be leaving the story highlights on my Instagram (also SaritaPaleo) from last year’s Archovember up until November 1st, if you’d like to see what people have done in the past! (This challenge usually gets a lot more traction on Instagram; so I would recommend checking it out there if you have one!)

As a disclaimer that I am obligated to give every year: when you are looking for refs for some of these species you will come across David Peters. This guy posts a lot of pseudoscientific images featuring lesser-known species, and his stuff can sometimes dominate search results. Do not trust anything from sites called “Reptile Evolution” or “The Pterosaur Heresies.” Peters’ constant outpouring of material has a habit of clogging up search results, misleading and tripping up people who may be trying to get into paleoart. He fooled me when I was first starting out! If you’re drawing along and are having trouble finding legit references, send me a message and I can send you what I’m using!

Anyway, here is the list in case the above graphic can’t be read:

1. Your Choice!

2. Other - Protorosaurus speneri

3. Dinosaur - Gorgosaurus libratus

4. Pterosaur - Preondactylus buffarinii

5. Dinosaur - Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum

6. Pseudosuchian - Razanandrongobe sakalavae

7. Dinosaur - Vespersaurus paranaensis

8. Other - Euparkeria capensis

9. Dinosaur - Spiclypeus shipporum

10. Pterosaur - Arambourgiania philadelphiae

11. Dinosaur - Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus

12. Pseudosuchian - Armadillosuchus arrudai

13. Dinosaur - Shingopana songwensis

14. Pterosaur - Cuspicephalus scarfi

15. Dinosaur - Saturnalia tupiniquim

16. Pterosaur - Caelestiventus hanseni

17. Dinosaur - Koreaceratops hwaseongensis

18. Pseudosuchian - Lotosaurus adentus

19. Dinosaur - Pelagornis sandersi

20. Pterosaur - Anurognathus ammoni

21. Dinosaur - Jakapil kaniukura

22. Pseudosuchian - Purussaurus brasiliensis

23. Dinosaur - Ledumahadi mafube

24. Pseudosuchian - Sillosuchus longicervix

25. Pterosaur - Pteranodon longiceps

26. Dinosaur - Compsognathus longipes

27. Other - Tanystropheus longobardicus

28. Pseudosuchian - Eurycephalosuchus gannanensis

29. Pterosaur - Campylognathoides zitteli

30. Dinosaur - Iguanodon bernissartensis

[dopscratch]

actually wait i have another (her name is violet)

Ok but IMAGINE if we started taking more inspiration from weird birds when designing dinosaurs. Give me velociraptor with a peacock plume. Give me Trex with a big, red comb and wattle. Give me Spinosaurus with iridescent duck feathers and big, webbed feet (they're still aquatic, right?). Pterosaurs with bald vulture heads. Archaeopteryx with the most insane mating dances on par with weaver birds and birds of paradise.

Just more weird bird dinosaurs, please

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Pteranodon longiceps! One of the most famous pterosaurs, this animal once held the title of the largest known flying animal ever (until the discovery of azhdarchids) with its 18 foot wingspan. Males were nearly double the size of females, indicating that their social structure was based around a single male with his harem of females.

[majachee]

so when you say one of the zords is a pterodactyl, do you mean this funky guy?

this is Pteranodon Longiceps, and is usually what comes to mind when someone says "pterodactyl", which is a pop culture catch all term for pterosaurs

but there IS a pterodactylus! that's this silly goober

I ask because Pterodactylus is technically the "pterodactyl" but they were also so tiny

im sorry im such a paleo nerd i just gotta infodump when i can

I guess the first one...?

Listen bro, they called the Mastodon and Saber-Tooth Tiger zords "dinozords" so dont expect much from MMPR lmao

[sidereon-spaceace]

TRICK OR TREAT

Pteranodon longiceps, the biggest pterosaur before they found Quetzalcoatlus

[newlabdakos]

Pteranodon

(temporal range: 86-84.5 mio. years ago)

[text from the Wikipedia article, see also link above]

Pteranodon (/tɪˈrænədɒn/); from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pteron 'wing') and ἀνόδων (anodon 'toothless') is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over 6 m (20 ft). They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota and Alabama.[1] More fossil specimens of Pteranodon have been found than any other pterosaur, with about 1,200 specimens known to science, many of them well preserved with nearly complete skulls and articulated skeletons. It was an important part of the animal community in the Western Interior Seaway.[2]

Pteranodon was not a dinosaur. By definition, all dinosaurs belong to the group Dinosauria; Pteranodon belongs to the group Pterosauria. Nonetheless, Pteranodon is the most famous pterosaur, frequently featured in dinosaur media and strongly associated with dinosaurs by the general public.[3] While not dinosaurs, pterosaurs such as Pteranodon form a clade closely related to dinosaurs as both fall within the clade Avemetatarsalia.

[veloci-raptor]

A Day in Niobrara

1. Hesperornis regalis 2. Nyctosaurus gracilis 3. Pteranodon longiceps 4. Claosaurus agilis 5. Niobrarasaurus coleii 6. Gillicus arcuantus 7. Enchodus petrosus 8. Platecarpus tympaniticus 9. Dolichorhynchops osborni 10. Protostega gigas 11. Clidastes prophython 12. Tylosaurus proriger 13. Bonnerichthys gladius 14. Ptychodus mortoni 15. Styxosaurus snowii 16. Xiphactinus audax 17. Cretoxyrhina mantelli

[luckycavy117]

Pteranodon for sure! "Pterodactyl" is technically for Pterodactylus antiquus, a relatively small pterosaur from late Jurassic Europe.

(Image by Matt Martyniuk)

(image by Julio Lacerda)

whereas Myfanwy is likely a Pteranodon, a much larger pterosaur from Cretaceous North America. Myfanwy appears to be P. Longiceps (the dudes with the long bony crests) specifically.

(Image by Matt Martyniuk)

(Image by Mark Whitton)

Had the show been a bit truer to science, Myfanwy would also likely be very fond of fish!

so my post about the torchwood office pet pterodactyl may have breached containment and i have been educated more on her!

her name is myfanwy and i’ve seen somebody say that she isn’t a pterodactyl because she’s too big and should actually be labelled as a pteradon instead (though they still call her a pterodactyl in the show)

[cjcroen1393]

Beautiful Creatures

What’s this? Another revision to my take on Pteranodon? Why yes it is!

I’ve been practicing drawing pterosaurs a lot lately! I’m still struggling with the wings specifically but I think I’m getting closer and closer to a style I have a real fondness for!

I want them to be as plausible as possible. This image, based on a Mark Witton skeletal (one that can be found here) shows a male (the large one with the long, brightly colored crest) and a female (the smaller one with the short, black crest) launching.

Heavily inspired by modern birds that display similar dimorphism, I gave the male a more vibrant palette, with reddish brown fur, while the female is a regular shade of brown and has some cryptic coloration going on. They also both have little black “masks” over their eyes. Why? Honestly just cause I felt like it lol.

I hope y’all enjoy!

[wayward-delver]

I love Pterosaurs, my favorite group of extinct animals.  

 Heres the difference btw, the bones are the two largest Pteranodon species and the bottom right is an average female which was only half the size and wingspan of their male counterpart. (Pterodactylus is the top right)

They’re also coming to Jurassic World Evolution and I’m so happy now!

[makairodonx]

A huge Tylosaurus proroger attacks a Pteranodon longiceps from below the ocean’s surface 81 million years ago in the middle of the Western Interior Seaway, in what is now the Niobrara Formation of Kansas

[huxley-paleozoo]

Sternberg the Pteranodon

Name: Sternberg

Species: Pteranodon longiceps*

Description: Pteranodon is the archetypal pterosaur in the public eye. With a maximum wingspan of over 6 meters, it’s also a fairly big one. It’s instantly recognizable due to the large head crest on its head and its long toothless beak, both potential display features. Males are larger and have a larger head crest than females. Pteranodon spent much of its time at sea diving for fish, and on land likely lived in large rookeries dominated by highly competitive males.

Location: Pteranodon lives with our other sea-pterosaur, Anhanguera, in the Pterosaur Tides aviary right outside the Aquarium.

Fun Fact: The Pteranodon group is known for projectile vomiting on keepers. Sternberg does it the most.

Personality & History: Pteranodon was among the earlier animals to be greenlighted. The Pteranodon chicks were initially raised behind-the-scenes, and when their wingspan began to exceed 2.5 meters they were introduced into the larger Pterosaur Tides exhibit. Of our Pteranodon trio, Sternberg is the biggest, with a wingspan of about 5.2 meters (17 feet). He’s also slightly younger than the rest, being born from a different clutch.

Sternberg finds it his duty to be on top. He’s claimed the highest rocks for himself and the other Pteranodon, and he often spends time sitting on top of it, triumphantly pointing his beak into the air, red throat in plain sight. At times, he will stand up on hindlimbs for a bit, proudly displaying the underside of his massive wings. We believe this to be another display of dominance. He will not tolerate anyone else on the rock, be they Anhanguera or people. If someone were to get to close, he’ll stamp the ground and groan at them. Most quickly understand it’s better to back down - except inexperienced keepers. We’ve had a number of staff not follow the warning and get a face full of half-digested fish.

One thing he does love is food. When we release fish into the water, he often plunges straight from the top of the rock into the water to grab them (don’t worry, the water is deep). This comes in contrast to the females, who prefer to dip in from a floating position on top of the water. They tend to grab fish quicker and easier than him. We don’t know why he doesn’t also dive from the water surface- maybe he doesn’t think it’s cool enough.