Ferrodraco, a new pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Australia

[Halichoeres]

From the Winton formation (the basis of the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum), here's a new pterosaur. It's pretty scrappy, but it nevertheless manages to be Australia's most complete fossil pterosaur. Meet Ferrodraco lentoni ("Lenton's iron dragon"), an ornithocheirid contemporary of animals like Kunbarrasaurus and Australovenator. Maybe if the AAOD line ever gets going again, it could eventually include a figure of this animal.

Here's the holotype, superimposed on a skeletal modified from one by Mark Witton:


Paper (open access in Scientific Reports): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49789-4

[suspsy]

Great name.

[CityRaptor]

"I am Iron Dragon!"...anyone else imagining that one in a conflict with Thanos simonattoi?

[ZoPteryx]

Great find and even better name!  I'm imagining it in flying around with Iron Man colors.