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Quetzalcoatlus northropi

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mounted reconstruction on lone from Dallas Museum of Natural History

"Dinosaurs of Texas" Exhibit at the Grace Museum 2003-04

and bone fragments found by the Boneheads Club

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Bonehead Index

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(kwet-zel-KWAT-lus NORTH-ro-PI)

Period: Upper Cretaceous, Javelina Formation

Location: Big Bend National Park, Texas

Collection: Dallas Museum of Natural History

Size: ? mm long

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Reconstructed Wing

     

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Quetzalcoatlus northropi

(kwet-zel-KWAT-lus NORTH-ro-PI)

Period: Upper Cretaceous, Boquillas formation

Location: near Terlingua Texas

Collection: Ken Barns

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Femur

Size: 14 1/2" x 2 1/8" wide shaft

Found by: Kim Knight of the Bonehead Club

Boneheads excavated, cleaned, prepared, molded, and cast.

 

Bone Fragments (wing?)

Found by: by Marsha Morgan of the Bonehead Club

Reassembly by: Jo Cox

Notice how thin these fragments are.  Pterosaurs had thin hollow bones.

 

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