Talk:Anurognathus
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This article is fairly accurat and I put a reference in too verifyEnlil Ninlil 03:34, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Eye position[edit]
Where was the eyes placed? On most reconstructions I've seen, the eyes are small and behind the biggest hole in the skull, don't know what it's called, like here:[1][2]. But DiBgd has drawn it with the eye in the biggest hole, while using this as reference:[3] So eh, which one is correct? FunkMonk (talk) 17:46, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
- DiBgd looks correct, using the Bennett skull. The skull of Anurognathus was only known as squashed, incomplete specimens until recently, and it's a weird-looking skull. The antorbital fenestra is actually small and shifted to the front in a very wide, short skull. J. Spencer (talk) 15:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- Ah ok. That would probably be nice to have mentioned in the article somehow... FunkMonk (talk) 15:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
- It looks like the specimen is published, but it's in one of the German journals that don't get out my way very often. J. Spencer (talk) 15:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Etymology[edit]
The article states that the name means "without tail jaw", "in reference to its unusually small tail relative to other "rhamphorhynchoid" (i.e. basal) pterosaurs", and cites a popular encyclopedia. Will have to track down the original paper, but surely, this was named in reference to Anura due to the similarity of the skull with a frog...? Dinoguy2 (talk) 22:51, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
- I agree; compare the closely related genus Batrachognathus. And the ref cited for that claim doesn't say anything about why it's called Anurognathus; all the ref says is that the Latin means "tailless jaw," end of story. So I'll fix the article. --Quuxplusone (talk) 03:46, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Accuracy[edit]
I have a book, Michael Benton’s Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, which depicts Anuroghathus quite differently, much more bat-like. I feel that this inaccuracy should be mentioned on this page and any page it is used on, thought i doubt said book is enough of a citation. I’ve removed the image for nowMRN2electricboogaloo (talk) 01:40, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
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