Oryctos
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Accès privé :
| volume 2, 1999 |
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Christian A. Meyer & Adrian P. Hunt, The first pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Switzerland: evidence for the largest Jurassic flying animal. Oryctos 2, 111-116.
An enigmatic bone from the Solothurn Turtle Limestone (Late Jurassic; Kimmeridgian) from an old quarry near St. Niklaus (Solothurn, Switzerland) is reexamined. This specimen, previously identified as coelurosaurian fibula by Huene (1926) is now interpreted as the wing phalanx II of a pterodactyloid pterosaur with a wingspan between 3.5m and 5 m. Pterosaurs with wingspans of over 2.5 m had previously not been found in rocks older than Early Cretaceous.
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