Summary
This specimen is a partial sacrum of a pterosaur with an estimated wingspan of two metres. 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, and the oldest evidence of pterosaurs ever found in Australia.
Specimen Details
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Taxon Name
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Number Of Specimens
2
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Sex
Unknown
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Specimen Nature
Form: Bone
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Date Collected From
1986
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Category
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Scientific Group
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Type of Item
Taxonomy
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Kingdom
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Phylum
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Subphylum
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Geospatial Information
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Continent
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Country
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State
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District
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Nearest Named Place
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Era
Mesozoic
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Period
Cretaceous
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Epoch
Early
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Stage
Aptian-Albian
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Geological group
Otway Group
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Geological formation
Eumeralla Formation