I do like Yowie for it’s diversity, especially among the animals of Gondwanaland. What I often get irritated about is that a proportion of them are based on very limited fossil material. I have reviewed several already, all named. This one, however, is not. This is the Giralia Pterosaur, an as yet unnamed pterosaur from Australia, being one of the largest and youngest found there. What did Yowie do with what they had? Well, let’s see……
I really like the pose here, a quadrupedal stance, neutral, quite nice. The legs and head have wiggle to them, which makes it one of the more poseable figures of the Yowie line. The colouration is great, orange with beige and black striped pycnofibers, very well sculpted. It is pretty small, measuring 1″ wide, 1.5″ high and 1.6″ long, small for most lines, especially for an azdarchid pterosaur (as it is believed to be). Very nice as a toy, but as an accurate animal? This is where the headache lies…….
This pterosaur is only known from an incomplete right ulna, so saying anything about it is hard. It may have some basis on another Australian Pterosaur, Mythunga camara, given it’s odd teeth, which is pretty nice. The overall look doesn’t really match most azdarchids, looking more like pterosaurs like Pterydactylus, owing to being tailless and toothed. Is an odd figure.
This is a nice little figure from a species that we know pretty much nothing about. Whether you want this is up to you. It is a well sculpted, well made figure, but you probably would use it to represent something else. It’s discontinued, so eBay is the best place to find it. Happy hunting!
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For all its flaws, not too shabby, definetly transports the Yowie charme 🙂