🐸 Froggy Faces 🐸

A little #Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus meets a #Liaobatrachus grabaui!

This idea was inspired by a drawing suggestion my lovely partner made (almost a year ago now, whoops), where she said I should draw a lil #frog!

#paleoart #paleocartoon #anurognathus #pterosaur #cartoon

Holotype specimen (GMV2128) of Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus on display at the Geological Museum of China - posted to Wikimedia Commons by Jonathan Chen

Screenshot of Figure 2 from Lu et al (2016) of a juvenile Gladocephaloideus jingangshanensis

Now, on to the Archosaurs! The #pterosaur record in the Jehol is extensive. Most were pterodactyloids like #Gladocephaloideus - the short-tailed branch that lived till the end Cretaceous. However, the Jehol shows the bat-like anurognathids (like #Dendrorhynchoides) were also still around too. (10/_)