FOSSILS REPLICA Jurassic Pterosaur bones DIMORPHODON - 1st time ever Mary Anning

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NEOVENATOR

Possibly the UK's biggest killer dinosaur. It once roamed the areas of Southern England around 120 million years ago, preying on the herds of Iguanodon and also, I would imagine, the numerous long necked sauropods that were around at this time. It is related to the T-Rex busting Carcharodontosaurus.

 

EARLY JURASSIC PTEROSAUR

 

 Dimorphodon

Above: Buckland's 1829 recreation drawing of the fossil remains. You can google search pictures of the actual specimen that is housed at the Natural History Museum. Picture Link: University of Portsmouth - History of Pterosaurs.

Name:

Meaning    -  Dimorphodon means "two form tooth", referring to the fact that it had two distinct types of teeth in its jaws - which is uncommon in reptiles. Named by Richard Owen in 1859. The history behind it's name depicts a wonderful story from the very early days of fossil hunting and scientific identification. See below.

Diet:

Predator: INSECTIVORE: believed to feed off the abundant flying insects of the Lower Jurassic. It has previously been thought to have fed off fish - but Buckland's original idea of being an insectivore is most likely correct.

Size:

Length - upto 1 m long with a wingspan of around 1.45 m (D. macronyx ). 

 

Geological Age:

Lower Jurassic (aprox. 195 million years ago). Their fossils have been found in deposits from the United Kingdom, with one potential partial specimen coming from the Early Jurassic deposits from Huizachal Canyon in La Boca Formation, Mexico. Their remains are consdiered very rare.

Locomotion:

They were considered to be fairly primitive - having fairly short wings and a long tail comprising of 30 vertebrae - the first 6 were short and flexible with the rest gaining in length and rigidity thanks to elongated vertebral processes. Regarded as not the best flying reptiles and at times may have appeared quite clumsy in the air.

Bones:

The first bones of Dimorphodon was found in December, 1828 by the famous fossil collector - Mary Anning of Lyme Regis from layers of the Blue Lias. The specimen was acquired by William Buckland and was reported on the 5th. Februyary, 1829 to the audience of the Geological Society.

Classification:

 

  • Kingdom Animalia (animals)
  • Phylum:  Chordata
  • Order Pterosaria  
  • Family Dimorphododontidae
  • Sub family: Dimorphodontinae (Seeley, 1870)
  • Genus Dimorphodon  (Owen, 1859)  

Type Species: Pterodactylus macronyx (Buckland, 1829)

  • Species D. Macronyx (Buckland, 1829); D. Weintraubi (Clark et al. 1998)

 

 

Other Info:

Following the report and public display at the Geological Society meeting in 1829 the bones were later studied in detail by William Clift and William John Broderip with an expanded report being published in the Transactions of the Geological Society - which described and named the fossil as a new species. As with all early pterosaur remains, Buckland classified this specimen as Pterodactylus macronyx as part of the genus Pterodactylus.  'Macronyx' being derived  from the Greek makros, "large" and onyx , "claw", in reference to the large size of the claws of the hand. The specimen, assigned at the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK PV R 1034), consisted of a partial disarticulated skeleton with no skull pieces.

  In 1858, Richard Owen (the man that gave us the name Dinosauria/Dinosaurs) reported the find of two further new partial skeletons of Dimorphodon, (NHMUK PV R 41212 and NHMUK PV R 1035), which also included the skulls. As a result of identifying the skulls as being very different to that of Pterodactylus , Owen assigned Pterodactylus macronyx its own genus, which he named Dimorphodon (based upon the nature of the teeth). His first report contained no description and the name remained a 'nomen nudum' - basically meaning  'naked name' the scientific way of saying 'published without description or diagnosis'. In 1859 however, a subsequent publication by Owen provided a description. After several studies highlighting aspects of Dimorphodon 's anatomy, Owen in 1874 made NHMUK PV R 1034 the holotype for Dimorphodon.   Please note that Dimorphodon will be making it's appearence in the new Jurassic Park IV film later this summer!  

REPLICA Fossil Information:

It's not every day I can offer something as special as this... A few years back I was asked to recreate this famous fossil for a programme that Sir David Attenborough was making about Pterosaurs (Flying Monsters 3D). The original fossil is considered too delicate, important and irriplaceable to take a direct mold from... so, for the first time since the specimen was found, I was the lucky person tasked to recreate it and yes, I even got to touch the original specimen!  It's not very often something really special happens like that... especially to me, so, I hope I have done it justice here!

The model is made from resin and has been carefully hand painted by myself. It measures 30 cm across and 22.5 cm wide. These are one off pieces and will be of a very limited availability as they take me a considerable amount of time to make.

This represents the first Pterosaur from the United Kingdom! and a real piece of pterosaur history!

 

So... thank you for your interest in this replica specimen.... any questions then please get in touch with me.

 

International buyers - please contact me for the most upto date shipping prices to your countr y. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sub-Type: Dinosaurs/ Reptiles
  • Type: Fossils
  • Shape: Natural

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