WIRE — Researchers from Mansoura University identified on Tuesday, 30 June, what is being described as Egypt's first confirmed record of pterosaurs, flying reptiles that dominated the skies 145 million years long before the appearance of birds. The discovery, led by the Mansoura Vertebrate Palaeontology Centre (Sallam Lab), was made in collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Environment, the Denver Museum of Nature Science, and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the United States. The fossil consists of a rare, diagnostic piece of a pterosaur wing: the first bone element associated with the extended fourth finger, recovered from rocks of the Bahariya Formation in the Western Desert near the Bahariya Oasis. Found within the deposits of the ancient marine Bahariya environment, the specimen offers the clearest direct evidence to date that pterosaurs lived and flew in what is now northern Egypt during the Late Cretaceous, approximately 95 million years ago. Based on anatomical measurements, the researchers estimate the pterosaur represented by the fossil to have been of a medium size, with an estimated wingspan of roughly four metres. Also, the study explains that pterosaur bones were generally thin-walled and lightweight,Continue reading "Egyptian "Sallam Lab" Confirms First Pterosaur Fossil Record" The post Egyptian "Sallam Lab" Confirms First Pterosaur Fossil Record first appeared on Egyptian Streets.
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