amber inclusion archive

Anurognathid wing claws

Wing claws of the Anurognatus pterosaur. The claws on both the wings and feet of small pterosaurs are very small and often difficult to see clearly. Most pterosaurs in amber that we like to archive are those found in tree hollows often whilst they were sleeping or resting with their families. The chances of finding nice pterosaur material from trunk amber or falling large amber blobs is much rarer. This large discoid of amber is the rarest type and the flar nature of the amber, the position that the anurognatus was trapped in (seemingly mid-flight) all give rise to a very interesting type of fossil that not only captures an amazing scene but shows numerous bones and integuments very clearly. Those with a deep interest may download the full dataset so that they can zoom in on the anatomy that interests them.

We will be publishing more images of the wing claws here in the future.

wing claw of anurognathus pterosaur

wing claw of anurognathus pterosaur


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  • Click here if you would like to see Hi Res images of the anurognathid wing claw

  • Click here if you would like a free download of reconstructed 3d stack of TIFF files for you to render yourself

  • Click here if you would like to see hires images the done flying anurognathid pterosaur rendered on Dragonfly software by Object Research Systems

  • Click here if you would like to see hires multi source videos of the anurognathus pterosaur rendered on Dragonfly software by Object Research Systems

  • Click here if you would like to see full images of an anurognathid with a cricket on its neck chasing a dragonfly in Cretaceous amber

  • Click here if you would like to see Head images of an anurognathid that show its lizard like skin.

  • Click here if you would like to see images of other insects and spiders found with the anurognathid in the Cretaceous amber

  • Click here if you would like to see images of the dragonfly found with the anurognathid in the Cretaceous amber


  • Click here if you would like to see teeth images from a larger pterosaur head without fluorescence.
  • Click here if you would like to see teeth images from large pterosaur head using fluorescence.
  • Click here to see hi-resolution SIDEVIEW of entire head that you can download and zoom in on
  • Click here to see hi resolution entire TOPVIEW without fluorescence.
  • Click here to see full stacked and stitched trial run of Romeo the small anurognathid pterosaur in amber
  • 3dimensional video spinarounds, render slices etc (Romeo).

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