Specimen P 186084 Wing bone, Pterosauria

Summary

This specimen is a metacarpal from the wing of a juvenile pterosaur with an estimated wingspan of approximately one metre. It was recovered from Dinosaur Cove in Victoria in the late 1980s by Tom Rich and Pat Vickers-Rich. The site has been dated to the early Cretaceous, making this bone roughly 107 million years old. This pterosaur specimen is remarkable in that it is both the oldest, geologically speaking, and also the youngest, being the first evidence of a juvenile pterosaur found in Australia.