A mystery Rhamphorhynchus enters the large pterosaur tree (LPT)
The little mystery Rhamphorhynchus
can be seen here with other similar, small, primitive Rhamphorhynchus specimens separated slightly by morphologial traits. The updated large pterosaur tree (LPT) can be seen here online with new color overlays for the 4x the pterodactyloid-grade evolved.
Yes, that means the traditional clade Pterodactyloidea is and has been invalid since Peters 2007. Pterodactyloidea has been kept on life support by academics who omit pertinent taxa. And they lack the curiosity to see what happens if they should do so.
Not good science.
All sister taxa look similar in this the LPT, as if they could have evolved in that order, distinct from all prior efforts in which workers fail to check their work for morphological mismatches. Those are numerous, obvious and overlooked in order not to raise the issue with potential reviewers = fellow PhDs.
Remember, publish or perish is the key to academic success and funding + making sure your supervisor is happy with your output.
On the other hand, independent researchers are free to explore uncharted avenues, to fill scientific vacuums with discoveries and to ultimately to show where professors went wrong – without fear of loss of funding, status, office space, job offers, good will, etc.
No museum number is yet known here for this little Rhamphorhynchus.
It may be a new one not covered by Wellnhofer’s 1975 treatise. After analysis in the LPT the new mystery taxon nests close to Wellnhofer’s n10 (B St 1959 I 400), among other small, primitive taxa. A GIF movie shows the several layers of DGS colors applied to the specimen then another image shows those layers reassembled into an accurate reconstruction that can be measured for data insertion for phylogenetic analysis.
Great wing membranes here. A vestige of a wingtip claw is shown in closeup.
Despite the lack of a scale bar, the new little mystery Rhamph appears to be similar in size to its closest relatives based on the foreground fingers.
Any help
with that museum number and/or scale bar would be appreciated.
Previous Rhamphorhynchus specimens tested in the LPT are shown here to scale. The Vienna specimen NHMW 1998z007/0001 is the only juvenile in the bunch.
References
Peters D 2007. The origin and radiation of the Pterosauria. In D. Hone ed. Flugsaurier. The Wellnhofer pterosaur meeting, 2007, Munich, Germany. p. 27.
Wellnhofer P 1975a-c. Teil I. Die Rhamphorhynchoidea (Pterosauria) der Oberjura-Plattenkalke Süddeutschlands. Allgemeine Skelettmorphologie. Paleontographica A 148: 1-33. Teil II. Systematische Beschreibung. Paleontographica A 148: 132-186. Teil III. Paläokolgie und Stammesgeschichte. Palaeontographica 149: 1-30.
wiki/Rhamphorhynchus
reptileevolution.com/rhamphorhynchus-n10.htm
Source: https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/a-mystery-rhamphorhynchus-enters-the-large-pterosaur-tree-lpt/
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