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Rhamphorhynchus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Rhamphorhynchus muensteri
- Age
- Jurassic, about 152.21–145.06 million years ago
- Found in
- Germany
- Length
- 0.7 m
- Height
- 0.1 m
- Group
- Pterosaur (long-tailed group; not a dinosaur)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (213 of 231) are estimated from close relatives and published reconstructions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 18 bones were shaped from photos or figures of this species' own fossils.
From this species 18Borrowed from relatives 0Estimated 213
Bones known from fossils
22 of 231 bones are known from fossils. 209 have no record.
Known 22Filled in 0No record 209
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D skeleton: A reconstruction created on this site using freely usable resources (scientific papers, public domain books, and Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Of the 231 bones (excluding teeth), 18 were modeled directly from photos, drawings, and dimensions of actual fossils of this species; 0 were borrowed from closely related species and scaled; and 213 were estimated. Sources used: Habib, Hone 2024 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.17524 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Hone, McDavid 2025 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.18587 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Hone, Henderson, Therrien, Habib 2015 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.1191 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (as stated in text)) / Zittel 1882 Palaeontographica 29: 47-80, Taf. X-XIII (archive.org/details/palaeontographic29cass) (Public domain (published 1882, author died 1904)) / Marsh 1882 American Journal of Science 3rd ser. 23(136): 251-256 (archive.org/details/sim_american-journal-of-science_1882-04_23_136) (Public domain (published 1882, author died 1899)) / Seeley 1901 Dragons of the Air, Methuen (archive.org/details/dragonsofairacco00seeliala) (Public domain (published 1901, author died 1909, marked NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT on archive.org)) / Witton 2015 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.1018 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (as stated in text)) / Jagielska, Kaye, Habib, Hirasawa 2024 eLife doi:10.7554/elife.100673 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0 / Public domain). For papers that are not freely usable, only factual data such as reported dimensions were referenced.
- Known bones: 22 bones are documented as fossil finds or visible in photos in the literature (the rest have not been found or cannot be confirmed from the literature).
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