MEYER & HUNT, 1999

Locality: St. Niklaus, Solothurn Canton, Switzerland.

Horizon: Turtle limestone.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

Naturmuseum Ssolothurn, NMS 20’870: Wing phalanx II.
Note: This would be the largerst Pterosaur in the Late Jurassic with a wingspane from 3.5-5 m.

Note: There are round compression fractures on the phalanx which are consistent with tooth impacts. Meyer & Hunt suggest the tooth marks were made during scavenging of the pterosaur carcass. A possible scavenger is the large mesosuchain aquatic crocodile Machimosaurus, which is known to have fed on marine turtles (Meyer, 1994).

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