Skiphosoura bavarica, a species of pterosaur that lived around 149 million years ago in what is now southern Germany, bridges the gaps between the early monofenestratan pterosaurs and the later pterodactyloids. Life restoration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto. For two hundred years, paleontologists split the pterosaurs into two major groups, the early non-pterodactyloids and the later and much larger pterodactyloids. The...
