re: BSP 1994, Wellnhofer 2003

[david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net>]

re: BSP 1994, Wellnhofer 2003

Anybody want to check this out?

The strange, short, and extremely broad-based coracoid of BSP 1994 (Wellnhofer 
2003), appears to be  a normal eudimorphontid coracoid juxtaposed on top of a 
lateral wing of an occiput, both broken off at a common line. Impressions of a 
continuation of the coracoid, and the rest of the occiput are marginally 
apparent in the photos. The new, more typical, coracoid would fit the sternal 
articulations and the cladogram much better, if valid. Otherwise we have a 
pterosaur with an extremely small chest cavity.

David Peters
St. Louis