Jurassic

Dsungaripteroid pterodactyloid pterosaur Kimmeridgian age of the upper Jurassic the formation of Argiles d'Octeville at the Cap de la Heve near Ecqueville shellfish eater, volant piscivore found in a marine claystone layer fibrous texture like horn sheath the back of its head forever lost concave leading margin crested wave a subclade most inclusive of the Lophocratia quite similar to the Germanodactylidae abrupt beginning to a larger crest

A vane like a rhombus or a triangle in the guise of the one of the Devil used as a helm, to navigate the skies nocturnal according to its scleral rings needle like teeth, angled forward curved, sharp beaklike tip sexual dimorphism (in)conclusive: wingspan, wingset, membrane muscles in the ratio of skull to humerus length fish and cephalopod remains found frequently inside its stomachal contents as well as a multitude of coprolites a fossil limestone slab tells stories of a Leptolepides in the throat the osseous labyrinth gives balance it holds its head in a parallel orientation

Stratigraphic zones two to five composite term Barys and Saurus early Tithonian stage of the Jurassic in the floodplains of the ancient Sundance Sea the structure of the cervical vertebrae allowed lateral flexibility but restricted vertical it swept its neck in long arcs at ground level moderate blood pressure, radiating excess body heat the longest neck and the longest tail the chevron bones lining the underside forked with a prominent forward spike protruding neural spines not complex dorsal into cervical, column never found peglike teeth confined to the front of the jaw a single carpal bone in the wrist digitigrade, manus adorned with a large claw

A series of fossil tracks unveiled into the Atlas Mountains of Morocco in the spring of 1979 a part of the Gondwana supercontinent No actual bones to be found a narrow gauge of its prints suggesting the brachiosaurid diagnosis corroborated by the ossein of the Nougaredi A most massive Parabrontopodidae a colossal sacrum, of mythic proportions the ichnotaxon method, the unknown genus the legacy of the trackmaker unknown