Aegirosaurus
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Aegirosaurus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous of Europe. It was originally named as a species of Ichthyosaurus.
Specimen with impressions of blubber in Jura-Museum Eichstätt
Skull
Pterodactylus
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Pterodactylus is a genus of extinct pterosaurs. It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.
Original copper engraving of the P. antiquus holotype by Egid Verhelst II and published by Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini, 1784
Holotype specimen of the species P. spectabilis, now considered a juvenile specimen of P. antiquus
Fossil pelvis of a large specimen, now referred to the dubious species P. grandipelvis
A P. antiquus specimen (AMNH 1942) showing muscle impressions in the chest and wing membranes