#gnathosaurus

[lucid-luno]

Second pterosaur done! The coloring on this Gnathosaurus is based off the striped bug (Graphosoma italicum)

[brodartrokihousuke]

Two nondescript members of the genus Gnathosaurus.... while I referenced some things for them I wasn't being very stringent on accuracy

I don't draw pterosaurs often but someone requested one from me, so I figured I'd try.

[bookrat]

Gnathosaurus, scratching an itch

[thepaleopetshop]

December 20th

Box #20 in our count down is Attenborosaurus… (more…)

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[serpentariusart]

A Gnathosaurus wading through an estuary.

[bethdehart]

Gnathosaurus doodle!

[Image description: a digital sketch of an anthropomorphic gnathosaurus lady. She is pink and pastel yellow. She's wearing a blue top tied behind her back, and light maroon shorts. She has wings on her back and lots of teeth.]

(March 24, 2021)

[emthimofnight]

ayyy so here are some of the prehistoric gryphons I designed forever ago  The ice age gryphon is a terror bird/saber-toothed tiger hybrid and is HUUUUGE like omg, taller than a car! She’s also big and buff and gay The second one is some kind of pterosaur (probably a gnathosaurus or ctenochasma) and a thrinaxodon (the very first “mammal”)! He’s small and bony and eats a lot of fish!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Gnathosaurus subulatus, G. macrurus

By Joschua Knüppe, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.

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Name: Gnathosaurus subulatus, G. macrurus

Name Meaning: Jawed Reptile

First Described: 1833

Described By: Meyer

Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Archaeopterodactyloidea, Euctenochasmatia, Ctenochasmatoidea, Ctenochasmatidae, Gnathosaurinae

Gnathosaurus was a Ctenochasmatid from the Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, living about 145 million years ago, in the Tithonian age of the Late Jurassic. It is also known - specifically, G. macrurus is known - from the Purbeck Limestone of the UK, dating to the Berriasian age of the Early Cretaceous, about 145 million years ago. First thought to be a Crocodilian, it was eventually classified to be a Pterosaur, with a more complete skull found and confirming this assignment. 

By Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0

Gnathosaurus had a slender, 28 centimeter long skull with about 130 needle-like teeth in its jaws, complete with a spoon-shaped tip at the end, indicating that it may have lived a life like modern Spoonbills, wading into the water and closing its jaws on small prey. It had a wingspan of 1.7 meters long, and, living in a marine environment, it probably would have fed primarily on food in marine sediments nearby. 

Sources:

http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/gnathosaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnathosaurus

Shout out goes to @korvus-viator!