Hatzegopteryx
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Hatzegopteryx is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuș-Ciula Formation, an outcropping in Transylvania, Romania. It is known only from the type species
Hatzegopteryx humerus
Cast of an assigned wrist bone
Cast of an assigned neck vertebra, Cleveland Natural History Museum
Skeletal reconstruction of the related Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus
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Quetzalcoatlus is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of T
Hatzegopteryx
…warrant its referral to at least H. sp. The size of Hatzegopteryx was initially estimated by comparing the 236 mm (9.3 in) humerus fragment with that of Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which has a 544 mm (21.4 in)-long humerus. Observing that the Hatzegopteryx fragment presented less than half of the original bone, Buffetaut and…
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
The known fossils of Quetzalcoatlus were discovered in Big Bend National Park, Texas
The name of Q. northropi refers to its similar appearance to aircraft designed by John Knudsen Northrop
Skeleton reconstruction of Quetzalcoatlus at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum, originally mounted by Langston in the 1980s