Eudimorphodon

Fossil of Eudimorphodon ranzii the Natural History Museum of Bergamo

• Europe
• Greenland

Eudimorphodon is a genus previously pterosaur ( Pterosauria ) from the time of the Upper Triassic ( Norian to Rhaetian ) and one of the oldest previously discovered pterosaur. Its fossilized remains were found in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in limestone formations at the foot of the Alps near Bergamo.

Like all older pterosaurs has Eudimorphodon as primordial feature a long tail. Moreover, its metacarpal bone is still relatively short.

The wingspan is about one meter. Its only six inches long pine is studded with 114 clear heterodonten teeth, some large, single pointed fangs in the front foot and into the middle of the upper jaw and many small, three - and mehrspitzige teeth in the middle, and back of the upper and lower jaw. It is believed that he fed on, protected by thick ganoid scales small, original bone fishing. Since this tooth pattern occurs more at any later pterosaurs, Eudimorphodon can not be its ancestor, but must belong to an extinct at the end of the Triassic sidelines.

Species

• Eudimorphodon ranzii
• Eudimorphodon rosenfeldi
• Eudimorphodon cromptonellus