Re: Anomolus Pterosaur element identification help.

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Christopher Collinson (Chris_Collinson@monarch.net) wrote:

<http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/img_show.html?file=http://paleo.amnh.org/i/22555-04.jpg
 
  This is part of Anhanguera specimen AMNH 22555. I really haven't a clue
of what it is but I'm leaning toward a sternum, but the part on the bottom
makes me unsure. I was hoping someone on the list might have an idea. I
need to know for a reconstruction I'm doing. Thanks.>

  This is a portion of the suspensorium, including jugal and
quadratojugal; the quadrate, and the rear of the lower jaw, whose elements
are largely fused; the slots or holes in the lower jaw are likely vascular
foramina corresponding to the surangular foramina in other reptiles, but
are not typically noted in pterosaurs.

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


                
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