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Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration.

Reason: Complete lack of pterosaurian pycnofibres, the real animal didn't have armored plating. Footprints belonged to the horseshoe crab Mesolimulus. DinosaursRoar (talk) 12:50, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

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English: A reconstruction of the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus by French illustrator Édouard Riou (1833-1900), as copied by Louis Figuier's (1819-1894) in his book La Terre avant le Déluge (1863). This reconstruction explains fossil tracks in the German Solnhofen Limestone. It was later discovered that the real track maker was the horseshoe crab Mesolimulus.
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Source Wellnhofer, P.; 2009: A short history of pterosaur research, Zitteliana 29, pp 7-19. (scanned)
Author
Louis Figuier  (1819–1894)  wikidata:Q2571091 s:en:Author:Louis Figuier q:it:Louis Figuier
 
Louis Figuier
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Guillaume Louis Figuier; L. Figuier; Louis Guillaume Figuier
Description French writer, physician writer, journalist, chemist, physician and pharmacist
Date of birth/death 15 February 1819 Edit this at Wikidata 8 November 1894 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Montpellier 9th arrondissement of Paris
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creator QS:P170,Q2571091

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