Talk:Anhanguera (pterosaur)

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Restoration

I think this article needs a scientific restoration of Anhanguera as none of my dinosaur books feature it and I have no idea what it actually looked like as a flesh-and-blood animal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.148.242 (talk) 01:37, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to try my hand at providing a restoration 9haven't done any pterosaurs in a while!), but in the mean time the Ornithocheirus seen in Walking with dinosaurs is not a bad substitute. The reconstruction is still relatively accurate, and the two animals were nearly identical, except in crest size and tooth placement. MMartyniuk (talk) 19:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have WWD images that are free from copyright? Not long ago a few of those were removed due to copyright violations. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 01:48, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We have a bunch of photos of some of the puppets they used, including an Ornithocheirus head.[1] FunkMonk (talk) 05:36, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Being of "sculptures", they might well be removed from Commons `: >(. A restoration by MMartyniuk would be most welcome! We also have a picture by John Conway of Anhanguera piscator in flight:

The WWD representation of Ornithocheirus gives a fair general impression of the proportions of the body. However, all described Anhanguera specimens are an order of magnitude smaller. The lack of consensus on which species should be included in the genus makes it problematic to provide details of the build of "the animal" because there really were several.--MWAK (talk) 08:40, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just meant the WWD as a suggestion for the user above to get an idea of what it looked like, not to include in the article (it depicts a different species anyway). Conway's digipainting of piscator is great (I own a print!) but it's assignment to Anhenguera rather than Coloborhynchus or something else is debatable. What we need (and what I'll probably try to do this week) is a resto of A. blittersdorffi and/or A. santanae. MWAK is right--"Anhanguera" is a currently large and ever-changing assemblage of possibly-related species, not 'an animal'. It's like Megalosaurus in the '20s. This is a case where it would be a lot less confusing to simply spin each species into its own genus and stop arguing semantics. MMartyniuk (talk) 12:42, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]