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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Sta.sh
How does this change the dynamics of muscles and leverage?
I love seeing your stuff!
Spike.
*faves*
Really, I like this interpretation better, something about it feels more "balanced", and I always had trouble making any sense of the scapulocoracoid in the reconstruction I made. One thing though, the final tail vertebra extends into two long rods positioned right next to each other, it seems to be rarely preserved and may have been normally cartilaginous, ossified only in exceptional specimens (as is the case with many distinctive features in Pteranodon) (see Bennett 1987 and 2001). I'd also recommend taking some bits of Bennett's skull interpretation lightly, especially that post-frontal bone which is neither in the corect position for a post-frontal, nor does any pterosaur have a post-frontal (though Wellnhofer interpreted the ridge surrounding the orbits of "rhamphophynchoids" and basal pterodactyloids to be one).
Chris told me in 2004 that he was wrong about the rods on the tail, and that they weren't real. I should revisit that.
The skull--yeah, I never got around to fixing that, I just traced Bennett. Want to combine skeletals? I'll send you the body if you sent me the head.
Combining skeletals? Sounds like a plan! Fair warning though, my skeletal is currently a complete mess in the original ai file.
Awesome work.
Paleontography really intrigues me. How did you get into it?