Pterosaur Beach

Pterosaur Beach is the name that paleontologists have given to an area along a long gone lagoon near what is now Crayssac, southwestern France. The area is notable because it is the first time that the fossil footprints of a landing pterosaur have been discovered. The fossil footprints are approximately 140 million years old.[1]

The site has hundreds of fossilized pterosaur trackways.[2]

The discovery was made by Jean-Michel Mazin from the University of Lyon.[3]

See also

Natural reserve of geological interest of the department of Lot

References

Pterosaur "Runway" Found; Shows Birdlike Landing Style, National Geographic News, August 19, 2009
A prehistoric ‘runway’ used by flying reptiles, NBC News, August 18, 2009. Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
Fossil tracks show a pterosaur coming in for a landing, scienceblogs.com, August 18, 2009. Archived August 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

External links

First record of a pterosaur landing trackway, by Jean-Michel Mazin, Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat, and Kevin Padian, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009

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