#pteranodon longiceps

[puddleorganism]

No caption behold my dinos

Batch 1 of at least 2 (and probably more)

[pikaole]

☁︎ Pteranodon in the blue sky ☁︎

[ Patreon / galaxy themes / insta / S6 / RB shop / appstore ]

[sodapa00]

I found a weird looking bird last night

[moochingvanze]

A while ago I (digitally) painted this Pteranodon longiceps, pretty proud of it! I used a skeletal and a photo of a sea bird on the beach as references.

[fabfire1234]

DinApril Day 23: A dinosaur that looks like an animal that is not a dinosaur (that your father saw).

Welcome to DinApril 2026, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my father come up with the dinosaurs! Our twenty-third day features a dinosaur that looks like an animal that is not a dinosaur: Phoebastria albatrus! A female short-tailed albatross has caught a Japanese flying squid and is bringing it home to her baby, only to be caught by surprise by the sight of a male Pteranodon longiceps carrying an Enchoteuthis that probably weighs a lot more than he does (and that isn't even the type species). How the pterosaur managed to pick up the stem-octopod, much less fly off with it, will be a riddle for the ages.

My father is one of those people who keeps thinking that Pteranodon is a dinosaur, so comparing it to a bird with a similar ecology made sense for me.

Coloration inspired by the actual animal.

[saritapaleo]

Archovember 2024 Day 25 - Pteranodon longiceps

As one of the main species to make up the mythical “Pterodactyl” conglomerate, Pteranodon longiceps is possibly the most familiar pterosaur to the public. However, most people don’t know much about the real animal behind the pop culture monster. Living in the Late Cretaceous USA, Pteranodon is also the most well-known pterosaur to science, as over 1,200 specimens have been found! It was the first pterosaur found outside of Europe, the first toothless pterosaur found, and, before the discovery of the giant azhdarchids, was also the largest pterosaur known. Pteranodon is also one of the few prehistoric animals with confirmed sexual dimorphism, and it’s a bit extreme to boot! The larger male Pteranodons had huge pointed crests and an average wingspan of 5.6 m (18 ft), while the smaller female Pteranodons had small, rounded crests, wider pelvic canals, and an average wingspan of 3.8 m (12 ft).

Pteranodon lived around the Western Interior Seaway, a massive sea that split North America in two during the Late Cretaceous into the Early Paleocene. With wings shaped like modern day albatrosses, Pteranodons were likely gliders who relied on thermals, but did seem to be more capable of sustained flapping. As one would expect, their diet was made up mostly of fish, though they may have eaten invertebrates as well. With their more heavy build, they could probably dive into the water like modern day gannets, folding up their wings and plunging beneath the waves, snatching up fish with their pointed, birdlike beaks. Pteranodon crests were most likely for display, as there was variation between not only males and females, but also individual males. As females were twice as common as males, they were probably polygynous, with males competing for the mating rights in rookeries of females. Competition was likely not physical, and instead would depend on females determining the age and fitness of males based on the size of their crest.

Pteranodon has been found in both the Niobrara Formation and the younger Pierre Shale Formation. Some possible fragments from the Mooreville Formation and Merchantville Formation also exist. While Pteranodon was much more common, it would have lived alongside, and possibly competed with, the fork-crested pterosaur Nyctosaurus and the toothed seabird Ichthyornis. It is probable that Pteranodon lived in offshore rookeries, raising their flaplings far from land-based predators, as most fossils are found far from what would have been the Interior Seaway’s coastline. Under the waves, Pteranodon would have hunted a variety of fish, ammonites, and squid. It would have come across sea turtles such as Toxochelys, plesiosaurs such as Styxosaurus, and flightless birds like Parahesperornis. It would have had to look out for mosasaurs like Tylosaurus and sharks like Cretoxyrhina. Aside from birds, most Pteranodons would rarely come across dinosaurs. Their main exposure to dinosaurs would be corpses, like that of the hadrosaur Claosaurus, being swept out to sea.

This art may be used for educational purposes, with credit, but please contact me first for permission before using my art. I would like to know where and how it is being used. If you don’t have something to add that was not already addressed in this caption, please do not repost this art. Thank you!

[libbydd]

sames same

[dragonsdenstudiosofficial]

The Pizza Knight Saves The Princess is a fantasy-comedy choose-your-own-adventure-style visual novel being developed by Dragon's Den Studios. Set on the planet Comestibla, where everything & everyone is made of food, we play as the Pizza Knight as he tries to save his beloved Water Ice Princess from the castle of the evil Chocolate Count. You can download the demo for free HERE: https://dragons-den-studios.itch.io/the-pizza-knight-saves-the-princess

Over the course of this month I'll be posting some of the game's art to this blog! This image is a sneak peak of content only available in the full release!

This image depicts a flashback that the Pizza Knight has to his youth after drinking one of the potions. This memory, taking place ten years before canon, depicts a scene from the knight's years as apprentice knight to the Skim Milk Knight when they visited the inn of Flying Jacob, a veteran of the AU wars made from, well, Flying Jacob (a Swedish casserole made from chicken, cream, chili sauce, bananas, roasted peanuts, and bacon). While the Skim Milk Knight talks of bygone days with his host, the Pizza Knight encounters one of Flying Jacob's tamed Pteranodonuts, who is begging for a sample of the knight's lingonberries. The sodas in the foreground are based on a discontinued line of sodas from Sweden called Kristall that I loved as a kid, particularly their pear flavor.