Skiphosoura bavarica Variant:Hand-painted It was a formidable predator

It was a formidable predator

Este animal pertenecía a la familia de los gliptodontes

strong limbs adapted for quadrupedal locomotion

Width 42 mm

Before the rise of the dinosaurs

Skiphosoura bavarica Variant:Hand-painted It was a formidable predatorSkiphosoura bavarica is an extinct pterodactyl pterosaur from the Late Jurassic, recently described from an exceptionally complete fossil from the Mrnsheim Formation ( Dritter 's Kieselflinz layer) in a limestone deposit near Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. The holotype (LF 4157) was discovered in 2015 and prepared using modern techniques that have preserved a significant portion of its bones in three dimensions, a rare occurrence in pterosaurs due to