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A very early engraving of Rhamphorhynchus from the Victorian Era I can't remember who the artist was, and it's very outdated today - but this was a very popular image in its time - though ironically the head is more like Pterodactylus.
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Pterodactylus kochi by John Conway, in a more recent free-legged configuration
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Plesiosaurus, and Pterodactylus were the aristocrats of the animal world.
Tropic Days 2003
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Pterodactylus were certainly not a game requiring so powerful a battery of attack.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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Pterodactylus, (Figure 3,) another of the Saurian tribe, associated, however, with Birds by some naturalists, on account of its large wing-like appendages.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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The best of modern prizes may be puny in comparison with those which caused distress to the giant molluscs of the age when the Ichthyosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and Pterodactylus were the aristocrats of the animal world.
Tropic Days 1887
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Pterodactylus, that a real flying dragon, on the model of Carlo
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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In the fossil specimen of the Pterodactylus crassirostris, which, as well as the loonger known P. longirostris (Ornithocephalus of Sommering), was found at Solenhofen, in the lithographic slate of the upper Jura formation,
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Pterodactylus, Pterodaustro, Lacusovagus and Pteranodon illustrations.
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Pterodactylus kochi (Wagner) from the Upper Jurassic of Germany.
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