How had the opportunity to work as a teacher and learn more about young people through their fascination with dinosaurs Earth Sciences and other prehistoric animals, are constantly QUICKLY how children learn facts and names of other dinosaurs Being surprised by the fossil record. as the three young children seem to have a capacity to absorb dinosaur quiz and are known to me from time to time travel with their questions. But I meet some children andyes, their parents, who seem to think that all the extinct reptiles of the past must have been old dinosaurs. This is far from the truth, the sort only a portion of Dinosaur fossils of vertebrate known, and a relatively small proportion of fossil reptiles. A common misconception is that the pterosaurs, or flying reptiles known as dinosaurs, this is not the case and will do my best to explain this during my teaching. My favorite genre pterosaursis that Rhamphorhynchus and I use images and information on this particular Jurassic flying reptile, to illustrate the differences between him and the dinosaur.
My Favorite pterosaurs - Rhamphorhynchus
Rhamphorynchus fossils were studied by scientists for nearly two hundred years. Late Jurassic pterosaur fossils have been found in England, Germany, Spain and East Africa (Tanzania). There were also pterosaurs teeth found in Upper AustriaJurassic sediments in Portugal, they have been allocated provisionally Rhamphorhynchus kind.
go as pterosaurs, there are certainly much more than spectacular Rhamphorhynchidae forms. For example, there is the huge delay Cretaceous Pteranodon (Pteranodon longiceps) from the western United States. Pteranodon was one of the largest flying reptile with a wingspan of 8 meters and a stunning headdress. Rhamphorhynchus had the crest of the head, andWas much smaller, but for me this long tail, flying dinosaurs has always fascinated me and I continue to learn interested in learning more about this particular part of the pterosaurs.
Rhamphorhynchus - a description
Rhamphorhynchus was a member of pterosaurs, not a dinosaur, but a flying reptile, which is closely related to dinosaurs, but an independent group. Like dinosaurs, pterosaurs were the archosaurs, development some time in the middle of the Triassic and survivorsEnd of the Cretaceous period. Rhamphorhynchus (Rhamphorhynchus Munster) was a pterosaur coastal areas and coastal environments that lived at the end of the Jurassic, although attributed Rhamphorhynchidae family fossil record lasting about 30 million years in the stratigraphy. Like all flying reptiles, were the wing flaps (possibly covered in tiny hairs insulating). This wing of the elongated fourth finger of the hand reaching down to the animalAnkle. Rhamphorhynchus Munster had a wingspan of about 1.5 to 1.8 meters and is about as large as the largest gull the British (the Great Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus). This is entirely appropriate, as fossils of pterosaurs with marine sedimentary deposits such as clay and limestone, the association placed in environments such as shallow coastal seas, estuaries and lagoons. The animal was light, hollow bones and even an adult weighing less thansix kilograms. The teeth in the jaws were long, pointed and needlelike. The teeth were blocked when the jaws are closed, suggesting that pterosaurs, a hunter of fish and squid was. This would collect slippery prey in the jaws and teeth of the gears would keep their booty safe.
Rhamphorhynchus, unlike the later pterosaurs had a long tail and rigid, formed at the end of a diamond has been rowing. Samples of the Solnhofen lithographic limestone, the sameLevels from which the famous Archaeopteryx (Early Bird) were found the fossils are exquisite. And delicate bones, this fine-grained limestone of soft tissues, internal organs and even get the impression of wings. Over a hundred have been excavated from the fossil quarries Rhamphorhynchus Solnhofen (Bavaria, Germany). Such a large number of fossils allow scientists to examine is the growth of this flying reptile, and learn how many children and young peopleAdults. The study of growth rates shows that this kind of pterosaurs about half the rate of species later pterosaurs grew.
Reasons for Rhamphorhynchus a favorite
If the giant pterosaurs of the world, creatures like Quetzalcoatlus comparison, for example, using the example of a primitive, long-tailed flying reptile hardly rate a mention. However, you are doing because of the well-preserved fossil SolnhofenRhamphorhynchus one of my favorites. There are a lot of models, posters and crafts kits available, or select Pteranodon Quetzalcoatlus as their model, but an early model pterosaurs I owned was made of the jungle Aurora Modular Swamp. This was an American prehistoric animal inspired series of snap-together kits Jungle and Swamp, which was to create the model of one of their young prehistoric jungle scene just the best in the area. Itpresented two models of pterosaurs were both Rhamphorhynchidae, a rare example of these flying reptiles in kit form for children represent. Perhaps because of my memories of the construction kit Aurora Jungle Swamp Rhamphorhynchus I have a fondness for the genre.
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