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The pterosaur Dorygnathus soars high above the landscape, its wings stretched wide as it glides through the ancient skies. With its slender jaws and agile form, it captures the image of a skilled prehistoric flyer. Below, the land unfolds in broad shapes and textures, while Dorygnathus moves effortlessly thro - Pterosaur Dorygnathus
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Dorygnathus, a small pterosaur with a long jaw and sharp teeth, moves carefully across the dry desert floor. Though known for its flight, it now walks on all fours beneath the open sky, its wings folded and eyes alert. In this barren landscape, the ancient creature appears both fragile and resilient - a rare - Walking pterosaur Dorygnathus
As the sun sinks into the horizon, the dorygnathus glides through the evening sky. Its wings are spread wide and catch the warm glow of the fading light. Below, the landscape lies still as the pterosaur floats silently in the golden sky, a graceful silhouette from a forgotten age. - Pterosaur Dorygnathus at sunset
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#Archovember Day 13 - Dorygnathus banthensis
Dorygnathus banthensis was a rhamphorhynchid that lived in the Early Jurassic of Europe, also in the time of the early Tethys Sea taking up most of the continent. (I did not realize I had put so many of these Jurassic archosaurs this close together when I made this list! We’ll be getting something from the Cretaceous tomorrow, don’t worry.) Like other rhamphorhynchids, it had a short neck, a long tail, and large interlocking fangs for catching and gripping wriggling fish. Wear on the teeth of some specimens suggest that they may have also fed on hard-shelled prey like mollusks and crustaceans. One specimen also contains preserved hairs, further evidence of pycnofibers or feathers in all pterosaurs.
Dorygnathus was more common in its environment than its contemporary Campylognathoides, and both have been found in marine deposits suggesting they regularly traveled over open sea. Dorygnathus would have lived alongside our previously visited Macrospondylus bollensis as well as other teleosauroids like Mystriosaurus, Pelagosaurus, and Platysuchus. It would have come across sauropods like Ohmdenosaurus, and flown over the variety of Early Jurassic ocean life like icthyosaurs, small plesiosaurs, early sharks, ammonites, and much more.
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Pterosaurs, the Flying Reptiles. Written by Helen Roney Sattler. Illustrated by Christopher Santoro. 1985.
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Dorygnathus banthensis
By Joschua Knüppe, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.
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Name: Dorygnathus banthensis
Name Meaning: Spear Jaw
First Described: 1860
Described By: Wagner
Classification: Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Rhamphorhynchidae, Rhamphorhynchinae
Dorygnathus is a close relative of Rhamphorhynchus known from the Posidonia Shale in Germany, living about 180 million years ago, in the Toarcian age of the Early Jurassic. As it wasn’t a contemporary of Rhamphorhynchus but rather a predecessor, it indicates the presence of this group of pterosaurs in Europe long before Rhamphorhynchus evolved. It is known from over fifty specimens that have been collected, and though multiple species of this genus have been assigned to it, only one remains valid at this point in time.
By Mark Witton, CC BY 4.0
Like other early pterosaurs, it had a long tail, that may have had a vane at the tip. It had long, sharp, outward-pointing teeth in its jaws, that would have allowed it to catch fish, grasping prey and preventing it from escaping. It had a short wingspan, about 1.5 meters long, and a small sternum, indicating that it had a different method of flight than other pterosaurs. It lived alongside another pterosaur, Campylognathoides, and in a marine environment, alongside such animals as Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs.
Sources:
http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/dorygnathus.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorygnathus
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