Iberodactylus, a new Spanish pterosaur

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A new genus of pterosaur has been described from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. The new genus has been given the name Iberodactylus andreui ("Andreu's Iberian finger"), with the genus name originating from the Iberian Peninsula and the Iberian System where the new genus was discovered and the Greek word "dactylus," meaning "finger," while the species name originates from Javier Andreu, the local collector who originally found the fossil. Interestingly, the new genus is more closely related to the Chinese Hamipterus than to any other species in nearby localities. Here is a reconstruction of the animal and an image of the fossils used to describe it (Iberodactylus is on the left, Hamipterus is on the right), as well as a link to the paper describing the new genus.




Paper (open access!): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41280-4

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Over/under on a new figure from Jetoar?

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That's interesting. 

And I spy a plesiosaur in the background of the painting.