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6.9" Pterosaur (Pteranodon) Partial Metacarpal - Kansas
This is a 6.9" long, partial metacarpal bone of Pteranodon longiceps, from the Smokey Hill Chalk in Kansas. It is fairly deformed from the preservation process and there are two repaired cracks.
Pteranodon is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, reaching wingspans of over 6 meters (20 feet). They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present-day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Pteranodon were pterosaurs, not dinosaurs: pterosaurs were reptiles capable of flight, while dinosaurs were strictly terrestrial.
Pteranodon is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, reaching wingspans of over 6 meters (20 feet). They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present-day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Pteranodon were pterosaurs, not dinosaurs: pterosaurs were reptiles capable of flight, while dinosaurs were strictly terrestrial.
The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil-rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles. It outcrops in parts of northwest Kansas--its most famous localities for fossils--and in southeastern Nebraska. Large, well-known fossils excavated from the Smoky Hill Chalk include marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, large bony fish such as Xiphactinus, mosasaurs, pterosaurs, and turtles.
SPECIES
Pteranodon longiceps
LOCATION
Western Kansas
FORMATION
Niobrara Formation, Smoky Hill Chalk
SIZE
6.9" long
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#96404
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