File:Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi pterosaur.jpg

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More commonly known as the Beak-snouted Pterosaur, this species of devil-tailed Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi with its 2 m wide wingspan was one of a dozen+ species of long-tailed pterosaurs aloft during the Jurassic. Whereas Pteradactyls were a contemporaneous family of more specialized short-tailed flying reptiles, as seen here

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Part of a fabulous touring fossil collection seen at Dynamic Earth, Sudbury Ontario, summer 2017.


Highly-detailed and complete fossils such as these are only found in lagerstratten, "places of exceptional preservation". Paleomania is the Great Travelling Fossil Collection of the International Museum Institute of New York.

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Author Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada
Camera location46° 28′ 27.58″ N, 81° 02′ 00.23″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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46°28'27.581"N, 81°2'0.226"W

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