Ludodactylus is based on holotype SMNK PAL 3828, a skull missing part of the head crest, that was removed from the plate before the fossil was illegally sold. Unlike other ornithocheirids, it had no premaxillary crest on the snout, but did have a crest at the back of the skull. Frey et al. interpreted the deep mandible as a crest on the lower jaws. Trapped between the rami of the mandible is a yucca leaf; Frey suggested that the animal got it caught in its beak and unsuccessfully tried to dislodge it (the edge of the leaf is frayed), and then possibly died from starvation or a complication of starving. The skull would have been more than 66 cm (26 in) long.
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| - Ludodactylus is based on holotype SMNK PAL 3828, a skull missing part of the head crest, that was removed from the plate before the fossil was illegally sold. Unlike other ornithocheirids, it had no premaxillary crest on the snout, but did have a crest at the back of the skull. Frey et al. interpreted the deep mandible as a crest on the lower jaws. Trapped between the rami of the mandible is a yucca leaf; Frey suggested that the animal got it caught in its beak and unsuccessfully tried to dislodge it (the edge of the leaf is frayed), and then possibly died from starvation or a complication of starving. The skull would have been more than 66 cm (26 in) long.
- Real Ludodactylus were unusual pterosaurs, closely related to the enormous Ornithocheirus. They have both teeth and a head crest much like Pteranodon, a combination of features long thought to be inaccurate. The name Ludodactylus means "play finger", referring to some children's toys that depict such pterosaurs. It was medium-sized, at a wingspan of four metres long. It lived in Brazil, during the Early Cretaceous period. The only known specimen of this animal seems to have choked to death on a leaf that was caught in its beak. It is also related to Darwinopterus ("Darwin's wing", after the famous naturalist Charles Darwin), another pterosaur which resembles old toys - it has features from both rhamphorynchs (long-tailed pterosaurs, like Rhamphorhynchus) and the pterodactyls (short-tailed
- Ludodactylus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil. The genus was named by Eberhard Frey et al. in 2003. The type species is Ludodactylus sibbicki. The genus name is derived from Latin ludus, "game" and Greek daktylos, "finger". Ludus refers to the fact, long lamented by paleontologists, that many toy pterosaurs combined teeth with a Pteranodon-like head crest, while no such creature was known to exist — however Ludodactylus shows exactly this combination of features. "Dactylus", in reference to the characteristic long wing finger, has been a common element in the names of pterosaurs since the first known was named Pterodactylus. The specific name "sibbicki" is an homage to the paleoartist John Sibbick,
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| - Ludodactylus is based on holotype SMNK PAL 3828, a skull missing part of the head crest, that was removed from the plate before the fossil was illegally sold. Unlike other ornithocheirids, it had no premaxillary crest on the snout, but did have a crest at the back of the skull. Frey et al. interpreted the deep mandible as a crest on the lower jaws. Trapped between the rami of the mandible is a yucca leaf; Frey suggested that the animal got it caught in its beak and unsuccessfully tried to dislodge it (the edge of the leaf is frayed), and then possibly died from starvation or a complication of starving. The skull would have been more than 66 cm (26 in) long.
- Ludodactylus was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Ceará, Brazil. The genus was named by Eberhard Frey et al. in 2003. The type species is Ludodactylus sibbicki. The genus name is derived from Latin ludus, "game" and Greek daktylos, "finger". Ludus refers to the fact, long lamented by paleontologists, that many toy pterosaurs combined teeth with a Pteranodon-like head crest, while no such creature was known to exist — however Ludodactylus shows exactly this combination of features. "Dactylus", in reference to the characteristic long wing finger, has been a common element in the names of pterosaurs since the first known was named Pterodactylus. The specific name "sibbicki" is an homage to the paleoartist John Sibbick, who illustrated Peter Wellnhofer's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs.
- Real Ludodactylus were unusual pterosaurs, closely related to the enormous Ornithocheirus. They have both teeth and a head crest much like Pteranodon, a combination of features long thought to be inaccurate. The name Ludodactylus means "play finger", referring to some children's toys that depict such pterosaurs. It was medium-sized, at a wingspan of four metres long. It lived in Brazil, during the Early Cretaceous period. The only known specimen of this animal seems to have choked to death on a leaf that was caught in its beak. It is also related to Darwinopterus ("Darwin's wing", after the famous naturalist Charles Darwin), another pterosaur which resembles old toys - it has features from both rhamphorynchs (long-tailed pterosaurs, like Rhamphorhynchus) and the pterodactyls (short-tailed pterosaurs, like Pteranodon and Pterodactylus ), showing that the long-tailed pterosaurs evolved into the short-tailed ones.
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