Having recently visited the Liverpool World Museum to see the cast of Quetzalcoatlus northropi suspended in the Foyer, I saw a number of specimens on display in the galleries. The specimen in the foyer is big and imposing.
In the education centre was a cast of a Tropiognathus skull. This was a substantial sized pterosaur.
A lone Rhamphocephalus bucklandi tooth from the stonesfield slate at Naunton, Gloucestershire was also on display. This is a small, but complete tooth.
Three plaster casts of small Solnhofen pterosaurs from the Lithographic Limestone of Bavaria are displayed along with a wing phalange of Pteranodon, from Kansas in the same display as the Rhamphocephalus tooth.
There is also a phalange from the lithographic limestone of Bavaria that is attributed to Pterodactylus. Both ends are damages, but this seems a good association to me.
There is also a small, but somewhat outdated model of a pterodactylus, of which I do not have a photograph. The
World Museum at Liverpool is an excellent visit if you have not been before.
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