will be an introduction to Paleobotany and will contain not only West Virginia fossils
Lepidotes elvensis was one of the earliest fish in which the upper jawbones were no longer attached to the jugal bone
they live only in Africa
The incisors are serrated
but this hypothesis was not confirmed until the first complete Tyrannosaurus rex forelimbs were identified in 1989
Rhamphorhynchus, pterosaur skull & wing #5 Deinonychus will be an introduction toRhamphorhynchus, meaning "beak snout", is a genus of long tailed pterosaurs from the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic diamond shaped vane. The jaws of Rhamphorhynchus housed needle like teeth, which were angled forward, with a curved, sharp, beak like tip lacking teeth, indicating a diet mainly