Tag: Femur

  • Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus, femur 8/LMK

    Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus, femur 8/LMK

    Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland A beautiful specimen of a femur, probably from a Dactylosaurus. Dactylosaurus is the most abundant member of the Pachypleurosauridae in the Silesian Lower Muschelkalk. They were small, aquatic reptiles with basal, primitive adaptations to this environment I found the bone in the…