Ikrandraco – the tip of the jaws

This is what you get when you reconstruct a pterosaur with rotating jaws (Fig. 1).

Figure 1. Ikrandraco jaw tips. Here the mandible extends slightly beyond the the rostrum, which has extremely tiny premaxillary teeth. Yes, that’s a tooth at the mandible tip. Very sharp.

And, going back one post, Ikrandraco does nest between the crested ornithocheirids and the uncreated istiodactylid ornithocheirid. And there’s a set of dorsal ribs beneath the tip of that plant material. That means there’s probably a scapulocoracoid under it, if anyone wants to do a little digging from the back.