E13 - Top Rare Ornithocheirid Pterosaur Tooth - Lower Cretaceous - Elrhaz Fm Crinoids Owens 1978

Owens 1978

Foerste 1910

The partially melted matrix is due to the high pressure of a meteorite impact on the Lunar surface

Cryptolithinae

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E13 - Top Rare Ornithocheirid Pterosaur Tooth - Lower Cretaceous - Elrhaz Fm Crinoids Owens 1978Scientific name: Ornithocheirid (Probably Ornithocheirus simus, (Owen, 1861)) Pterosaur Location: Gadoufaoua, Tner Desert, Niger. Geological Formation: Elrhaz Fm Age: Lower Cretaceous, Aptian Albian stage ( 113 million years) Size (long): 4. 9cm = 1. 92 Inch REF.: E13 DESCRIPTION: Ornithocheirus simus, is only known from fragmentary jaw tips. It bore a distinctive convex "keeled" crest on its snout similar to its relatives. Ornithocheirus had