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Quick "Pterodactylus" from The End of Oak Street fan art in my style.

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Digital sketches drawn by hand in Procreate for iPad using an apple pencil of two distinct pterosaurs in my style interpreting the short-tailed pterosaur in the movie. On the left is Noripterus and on the right is Pterodactylus. I started this before people knew the short-tailed pterosaur was labeled Pterodactylus in the behind the scenes material. I'm still very resolute that the one in the movie has more features in common with Noripterus (tooth arrangement, body size, and being digitigrade than Pterodactylus. However! Pterodactylus used to be a wastebasket taxon so it's perfect. There was a point when every pterosaur was assigned as a species of Pterodactylus.
September 17, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Q: The bulkiest/land-based pterosaur?

There are pterosaurs that have really thick bone walls, and pretty sturdy legs and hips: the dsungaripterids. They are weird, have long beak and cone-like teeth behind it. The best candidates for land-capable pteros. Bulky boys.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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durophagous wading pterosaurs, at least one of which - noripterus - had digitigrade hindlimbs? peak creatures
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!!

today we sketched Vesperopterylus, Mammut americanum (Mastodon), Umoonasaurus, and Dsungaripterus

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a Vesperopterylus flies over the camera at night, it's illuminated by an artificial light coming from behind the camera, part of a ginkgo tree is illuminated by the circle of light Vesperopterylus is a kind of anurognathid pterosaur, a group of flying reptiles that use wings supported by a thin membrane and have very short faces, it is the biggest found anurognathid and was most likely nocturnal like the rest of the group at dusk, a lone mastodon calls out into the open plains hoping for a response. her trunk happens to align perfectly with the setting sun from the angle of the camera, it almost looks like she's attempting to force the sun back upwards to give herself more daylight. she does not know that she is the last of her kind, and that this will be her last night. mastodon are large proboscideans, a group of animals that includes elephants with many members looking a lot like them, and were native to many continents, the species shown here is Mammut americanum, the american mastodon a Umoonasaurus swims underneath the thick winter sea ice, it finds a gap in the ice to take a breath of air from Umoonasaurus is a plesiosaur from Australia, plesiosaurs are fully marine reptiles that swim using four flippers. Umoonasaurus is part of the clade with long necks. the area it was found in was a polar shallow sea that we know had floating glaciers and probably sea ice Dsungaripterus and Noripterus prepare for their respective incoming breeding seasons, however the number of Noripterus on this stretch of the beach is particularly dense this year. two hormonal male Dsungaripterus have come a little early, but are unphased by the presence of their smaller relatives however, and are sizing each other up, ready to duke it out for the best spot to display to females on the beach. Noripterus and Dsungaripterus are both dsungaripterid pterosaurs, flying reptiles that fly with wings supported by a thin membrane that used blunt teeth to crush hard shelled prey and pointed beaks to pry and dig them out. Dsungaripterus stood at about 1.5 metres tall while Noripterus was only about 60 centimetres tall
May 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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an Echidnacaris ventures into shallow water. however, it's chosen a bad time to as the shoreline is currently experiencing a red tide, a rise in excess nutrients has caused dinoflagellates and other kinds of algae to grow out of control, staining the water a deep orange and releasing harmful toxins Echidnacaris is a kind of radiodont, very primitive and extinct marine arthropods that swam using rows of fins on the sides of their body. Echidnacaris was a filter-feeding radiodont, using its bristled feeding apendages to capture small prey to bring to its mouth. it's especially weird compared to other radiodonts as it had eyes that werent on stalks and had eyebrow sclerites to block overhead sunlight, implying it lived in a very well lit environment a courting pair of female Terminonatator bond by cooperating in processing their latest kill. they rip into the juvenile mosasaur with their large teeth, ripping it apart by holding on to either end and pulling away with their muscular necks and flippers. the dappled light of the surface can be seen behind them Terminonatator is an extremely pin headed elasmosaur, long necked marine reptiles with four powerful flippers that they used to propel themselves through the water. Terminonatator had a very long neck and was most likely macropredatory based on the size of its teeth Dsungaripterus and Noripterus prepare for their respective incoming breeding seasons, however the number of Noripterus on this stretch of the beach is particularly dense this year. two hormonal male Dsungaripterus have come a little early, but are unphased by the presence of their smaller relatives however, and are sizing each other up, ready to duke it out for the best spot to display to females on the beach. Noripterus and Dsungaripterus are both dsungaripterid pterosaurs, flying reptiles that fly with wings supported by a thin membrane that used blunt teeth to crush hard shelled prey and pointed beaks to pry and dig them out. Dsungaripterus stood at about 1.5 metres tall while Noripterus was only about 60 centimetres tall a Bothriolepis kicks up sediment in a shallow freshwater waterbody looking for food. the water is stained orange with tannins, blurry greenery can be seen through the surface of the water Bothriolepis is a small armoured fish that looked and fed somewhat like a pleco, being very heavily armoured and box shaped
July 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Let's welcome Noripterus

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April 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Art style range train, show off your range!

i always get so indecisive when i do these, how am i supposed to only pick four 😭!?!?

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a Mosura fentoni approaches the camera, its eyes reflect the light of the camera back to it as its translucent body appears to glow blue Mosura fentoni is a small radiodont which probably lived in deeper waters in the water column, using its three eyes to seek out prey larger than itself. unlike other radiodonts it probably used its entire frontal appendages to grab prey rather than just the endites, and had a derived last section of its body dedicated to just oxygen absorption rather than oxygen absorption and swimming like that of all other radiodonts known so far Dsungaripterus and Noripterus prepare for their respective incoming breeding seasons, however the number of Noripterus on this stretch of the beach is particularly dense this year. two hormonal male Dsungaripterus have come a little early, but are unphased by the presence of their smaller relatives however, and are sizing each other up, ready to duke it out for the best spot to display to females on the beach. Noripterus and Dsungaripterus are both dsungaripterid pterosaurs, flying reptiles that fly with wings supported by a thin membrane that used blunt teeth to crush hard shelled prey and pointed beaks to pry and dig them out. Dsungaripterus stood at about 1.5 metres tall while Noripterus was only about 60 centimetres tall an Echidnacaris ventures into shallow water. however, it's chosen a bad time to as the shoreline is currently experiencing a red tide, a rise in excess nutrients has caused dinoflagellates and other kinds of algae to grow out of control, staining the water a deep orange and releasing harmful toxins Echidnacaris is a kind of radiodont, very primitive and extinct marine arthropods that swam using rows of fins on the sides of their body. Echidnacaris was a filter-feeding radiodont, using its bristled feeding apendages to capture small prey to bring to its mouth. it's especially weird compared to other radiodonts as it had eyes that werent on stalks and had eyebrow sclerites to block overhead sunlight, implying it lived in a very well lit environment a Bothriolepis kicks up sediment in a shallow freshwater waterbody looking for food. the water is stained orange with tannins, blurry greenery can be seen through the surface of the water Bothriolepis is a small armoured fish that looked and fed somewhat like a pleco, being very heavily armoured and box shaped
May 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Phylopic of the Day: Noripterus complicidens

Noripterus are a dsungaripterid (robust, terrestrial) pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (100 - 145 mya) adapted for feeding on shelled animals.

Image credit: Nix Illustration
License: CC BY-NC 3.0

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This image from the Phylopic database features a silhouette of a pterosaur, an extinct flying reptile, with large wings and a distinctive beak. Its shape suggests it might belong to a pterosaur from the Pterodactyloidea group, known for their elongated necks and larger wingspans compared to other pterosaurs. The silhouette emphasizes the creature's unique wing structure and body proportions. Image credit: Nix Illustration License: CC BY-NC 3.0
November 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM
narwhalwall.bsky.social
So happy you like this! And Yes, they are based on real pterosaurs. Although it’s somewhat speculative to what their head crests looked like since only bone (usually) fossilizes. I believe the red capped one was based on Noripterus.
January 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM