#pterodactylus

[haltraveler]

Digitized version of a doodle I made last week to entertain some 3rd graders

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

And here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...

All of these creatures being preserved in marine sediments. For one it makes it possible to show all the cool pterosaurs and other stem birds from here. On the other hand, more importantly, it offers the possibility to show the environment many of these animals occupied.

Popular images of the Solnhofen islands show them as tropical paradises, often with cliffs and tall trees. The opposite appears to be the case. The islands were probably small, arid, flat and had vegetation that can be better described as shrubbery. Small conifers...

and bennettitaleans are the most common plants. The beaches were probably blinding white, consisting of sand that formed from broken down corals and sponges, as these islands were often not much more than reefs peaking above the waves. Formations/localities that housed the...

typical Solnhofen fauna form a long corridor through southern Germany but localities in France show similar preservation. The Atlmühltal Formation has iconic taxa like Archaeopteryx and Pterodactylus and was therefore the first of these formations we covered.

The size charts this time were a collaborative effort between me and 3 more friends.

As you can see there the local insect fauna had some absolute bangers. When you want large insect interacting with dinosaurs or pterosaurs: this is your place!

[railroadatrox]

DRAGONS OF THE MESOZOIC

I got commissioned to design a pterosaur back tattoo, and decided to use the opportunity to redraw my original dragons of the Mesozoic design.

[drizzledrawings]

Sex? No put ur pants back on I'm gonna tell you about how pterodactyls arent a specific type of pterosaur, pterodactylus is!! "Pterodactyl" is just a colloquial nickname for any small toothed pterosaur!!!!!!!!!

[wiles-art-blog]

Old world dragons...

Closeups under cut

[meloboye]

Thoth

I smart

(drawn in August 2025)

[justgoji]

my headspace lost world island didn’t have enough fliers so I made a bunch

[makairodonx]

Sketches I’ve made of various Jurassic fauna, from bottom to top: Camarasaurus, Dimorphodon, Pterodactylus, Liopleurodon, Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. As a paleontology enthusiast since childhood, I consider the Jurassic to be my favorite period of the Mesozoic Era, since it’s called “The Golden Age of Dinosaurs” for being the heyday of not only the dinosaurs but also the pterosaurs and some of the most spectacular marine reptiles and fish ever to swim the earth’s oceans, and for boasting some of the coolest animals of the entire Mesozoic era overall, even when much of 2020s paleomedia skips it completely in favor of the more popular animals of the Late Cretaceous or the Pleistocene.