Pterosaur tail bones (OUMNH PAL-J.028252)3D Model
Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Lower Jurassic. (~200 million years old).
Eight caudal vertebrae comprising part of the tail of pterosaur Dimorphodon macronyx, set within one of Elizabeth Philpot’s distinctive plaster and wood presentation boxes. In this case, the base of the box is covered in newspaper.
Elizabeth and her friend Mary Anning both provided pterosaur specimens to palaeontologists William Buckland and Richard Owen for study. However, Mary continued to earn her name as one of the greatest fossil collectors when, in 1828, she found the first British pterosaur fossil, subsequently described as a ‘flying dragon’ when housed at the British Museum.
Specimen: OUMNH PAL- J.028252 Collections Online: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-673252
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