Illustration of Rhamphorhynchus, from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Rhamphorhynchus had a longer tail than a pterodactyl, and it left its tail- and foot-prints in many sandstones of the mid-Jurassic Period.
Rhamphorhynchus, Illustration
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