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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 11/09/2026

Every Field Guide tier has its own pterosaur, now complete at six. Meet the two newest. Dimorphodon, the maverick, fronts the Signed Edition. Tupandactylus, the showstopper, fronts the Collector's Set. Designed by Arina Tereschenko. No AI. Both tiers still open for late pledges. fossi.ls/ks

Dimorphodon, the Signed Edition tier mascot for Pterosaurs: The Field Guide

Tupandactylus, the Collector’s Set tier mascot for Pterosaurs: The Field Guide

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 31/08/2026

Funded. Thank you to everyone who backed Pterosaurs: The Field Guide. Closed at $61,525 from 965 backers, more than five times our goal. The book is going to print. Books ship in January.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 31/08/2026

$60,000 unlocked. Akharhynchus martilli joins the field guide, a toothed pterosaur from the Kem Kem of Morocco, the mid-Cretaceous river system best known for Spinosaurus. Every animal painted by hand. Pledges close this morning at 9:59 AM Eastern. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 31/08/2026

$58,000 unlocked. Darwinopterus camposi joins the field guide, a newly named transitional pterosaur from Jurassic China. Every animal painted by hand. Pledges close this morning at 9:59 AM Eastern. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 31/08/2026

A few hours left. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide closes this morning at 9:59 AM Eastern. Past $60,000, more than five times our goal. No AI anywhere in it. If you've been waiting, this is it. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 31/08/2026

$56,000 unlocked. Tsogtopteryx mongoliensis joins the book, the smallest azhdarchid ever named, a 5-to-6-foot wingspan from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Closes Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 30/08/2026

$36,000 unlocked. Garudapterus buffetauti joins the book, painted by Julio Lacerda. The first pterosaur ever named from Southeast Asia, from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand. Closes Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleoart

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 30/08/2026

The final day. Pledges close tomorrow, Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern. Past $54,000 and more than four times funded, with species still unlocking. Last chance to back the complete illustrated guide to pterosaurs. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 30/08/2026

$54,000. Gobiazhdarcho joins the book, a new azhdarchid from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Last day: closes Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern, past four times funded. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 29/08/2026

$52,000. Spot-gloss on the cover is unlocked, a raised gloss on the title and art over the soft-touch matte. On every printed copy. Closes Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 29/08/2026

48 hours left. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide closes Monday, 9:59 AM Eastern. Past $51,000 and climbing. The complete illustrated guide to pterosaurs. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 28/08/2026

$50,000 unlocked: Galgadraco, the first pterosaur ever named from Brazil's Bauru Group, a Late Cretaceous azhdarchid. It joins the book as a full page with original art. Closes Monday. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 27/08/2026

$48,000 unlocked: Infernodrakon, a newly named azhdarchid from the Hell Creek of Montana with an estimated 10-to-13-foot wingspan. Joins the book as a full page with original art. Four days left. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 26/08/2026

$46,000 unlocked: a soft-touch matte cover on every printed copy of the book, hardcover and softcover. Next at $48,000: Infernodrakon, a new azhdarchid from the Hell Creek of Montana. Five days left. fossi.ls/ks #Pterosaurs #Paleontology

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 24/08/2026

That's a wrap on the signed edition. All 150 numbered, hand-signed copies of Pterosaurs: The Field Guide are claimed. If you still want your book signed by Pete, the new Signed Edition has you covered. fossi.ls/ks

Gold-on-dark card reading SOLD OUT, all 150 signed copies claimed. You can still get your copy signed with the new Signed Edition, hand-signed by Pete, for $69. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 24/08/2026

$44,000. Nipponopterus is unlocked, Japan's first named pterosaur, and it joins the book as a new full page with original art. Every $2,000 adds another newly described species. fossi.ls/ks

Gold-on-dark card reading 44,000 dollars unlocked, Nipponopterus, Japan's first named pterosaur. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 24/08/2026

More than 250 pterosaurs. Nearly 400 full color pages. Original paleoart for every single one. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide is the first complete guide to every known pterosaur, and it's on Kickstarter now. Closes August 31. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 23/08/2026

$42,000. Every copy of the book now gets a ribbon marker bound in. Next up at $44,000 is Nipponopterus, Japan's first named pterosaur. fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs The Field Guide. 42,000 dollars unlocked. Every copy of the book now gets a ribbon marker bound in.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 22/08/2026

The finished Inabtanin alarabia, by Nathan E. Rogers. Named in 2024 from Jordan, a 17 foot wingspan. CT scans of its arm bone show the crisscrossed struts of a flapping flier, not a soarer like its giant neighbor Arambourgiania. fossi.ls/ks Art by @nathanerogers.bsky.social

Paleoart of Inabtanin alarabia, a pterosaur with iridescent wings, painted by Nathan E. Rogers. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 28,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 22/08/2026

Only 13 of the deluxe signed hardcovers are left. It is the only signed tier, capped at 150, and once they are gone that is it. fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs The Field Guide. Only 13 deluxe signed hardcovers left, the only signed tier, capped at 150.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 21/08/2026

$40,000. Saratovia glickmani is going into the book, one of the last toothed pterosaurs. Next up at $42,000, a ribbon marker in every copy. fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs The Field Guide. 40,000 dollars unlocked. Saratovia glickmani, one of the last toothed pterosaurs, is going into the book.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 21/08/2026

The finished Makrodactylus oligodontus, by Joschua Knüppe. From the Mörnsheim limestone of Bavaria, the smallest adult non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan known at a 2 foot wingspan. Its name means few-toothed, seven upper and six lower teeth per side. fossi.ls/ks Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Paleoart of Makrodactylus oligodontus, a small flying pterosaur, painted by Joschua Knuppe. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 26,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 20/08/2026

The finished Laueropterus vitriolus, by Joschua Knüppe. Named this year from the Mörnsheim limestone of Germany, about 3 feet across, one of the larger early monofenestratans. Its name means sulfuric acid, for the etched-looking bone pitting. fossi.ls/ks Art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social

Paleoart of Laueropterus vitriolus, a long jawed early pterosaur, painted by Joschua Knuppe. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 24,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 19/08/2026

The finished Torukjara bandeirae, by Vitor Silva. Named in 2024 from a Brazilian bonebed where tapejarids died by the hundreds. Its bones sat under another species until Kamila Bandeira spotted two were mixed. She was right, and it is named for her. fossi.ls/ks

Paleoart of Torukjara bandeirae, a crested tapejarid pterosaur, painted by Vitor Silva. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 22,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 19/08/2026

The AMA is live! Pete Buchholz, the author of Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, is answering your pterosaur questions right now. Ask him anything, the science, the art and really, anything else. Comment on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, or our Kickstarter page. fossi.ls/ks

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow. Pete Buchholz, the author of Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, is doing an AMA. Ask him anything, the science, the art and really, anything else. Wednesday, August 19 at 10am Eastern, on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our Kickstarter page. fossi.ls/ks

Ask Me Anything with Pete Buchholz, author of Pterosaurs The Field Guide. Wednesday August 19 at 10am Eastern on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our Kickstarter page.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 19/08/2026

Tomorrow. Pete Buchholz, who wrote the book, is doing an AMA. Bring your pterosaur questions, the weirder the better. Wednesday, August 19 at 10am Eastern, on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our Kickstarter page. fossi.ls/ks

Ask Me Anything with author Pete Buchholz. Wednesday August 19 at 10am Eastern on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, and our Kickstarter page.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 18/08/2026

The finished Eotephradactylus mcintireae, by Lucas Lima. The oldest pterosaur named from North America, described in 2025 from a jaw found in Arizona, about 209 million years old. Roughly the size of a small seagull. fossi.ls/ks

Paleoart of Eotephradactylus mcintireae, a small early pterosaur, painted by Lucas Lima. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 20,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 18/08/2026

$38,000. Spathagnathus roeperi is going into the book, the oldest known gnathosaurine. Next up at $40,000 is Saratovia. fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs The Field Guide. 38,000 dollars unlocked. Spathagnathus roeperi, the oldest known gnathosaurine, is going into the book.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 17/08/2026

The finished Skiphosoura bavarica, by Karolina Twardosz. Found 2015, described 2024, a transitional form between Darwinopterus-type monofenestratans and true pterodactyloids. It missed our manuscript, so the guide is how it gets in. fossi.ls/ks Art by @twarda.bsky.social

Paleoart of Skiphosoura bavarica, a crested pterosaur, painted by Karolina Twardosz. Pterosaurs The Field Guide, 14,000 dollar stretch goal unlocked.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 17/08/2026

Three times funded. 583 backers, 13 days to go, and every stretch goal we launched with is already unlocked. Next up at $38,000 is Spathagnathus, the oldest gnathosaurine known. fossi.ls/ks

Pterosaurs The Field Guide momentum card. Three times funded, 583 backers, 13 days to go. Next up at 38,000 dollars, Spathagnathus.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 17/08/2026

We cleared every stretch goal we launched with. So we added more. Nine new pterosaurs and a few upgrades to the book. Every $2,000 past the goal pays an artist to paint another animal almost nobody has drawn before. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card headed What comes next, listing the next stretch goals from 38,000 to 60,000 dollars — nine new pterosaur species and three book upgrades. Pterosaurs: The Field Guide lockup top left.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 16/08/2026

Pete Buchholz, author of our book, is doing an AMA this Wednesday. Ask him anything about pterosaurs, the science, or the five years we spent making this. Wednesday, August 19, 10am Eastern, here and in the Kickstarter comments. Bring your most incisive questions. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading ASK ME ANYTHING with author Pete Buchholz. Wednesday August 19, 10am Eastern, on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky and our Kickstarter page. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 15/08/2026

$36,000. Garudapterus buffetauti is going into the book, painted by Julio Lacerda. The first pterosaur ever named from Thailand, from a 130 million year old jaw. That's the last rung of the stretch goal ladder we launched with. We blew past all of it, so we're adding more. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $36,000 UNLOCKED above Garudapterus buffetauti in italic, then a photo of paleoartist Julio Lacerda in a circle, painted by Julio Lacerda, handle at lacerda.julio. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 14/08/2026

One of the world's foremost pterosaur experts, Alexander Kellner of the Museu Nacional in Rio, got an early look at the book. "He has done a magnificent job, covering virtually every aspect of these flying reptiles with up-to-date information." fossi.ls/ks

Dark quote card. Alexander W. A. Kellner, professor and curator of paleontology at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, says of the book: he has done a magnificent job, covering virtually every aspect of these flying reptiles with up-to-date information. Footer reads Live on Kickstarter.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 14/08/2026

$34,000. The life list is unlocked. A checklist of every species in the guide, so you can mark off the ones you've read about. Plus a set of wallpapers of the book's art for your phone and desktop. Next up, $36,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $34,000 UNLOCKED above The life list in white, with the line: a checklist of every species in the guide, plus a set of wallpapers. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 13/08/2026

Meet Ikrandraco, named after the flying creatures in Avatar. In the book it shares a spread with a second Ikrandraco species, each with its art, when and where it lived, its size next to a person, and a map of where it's been found. fossi.ls/ks

A two-page book spread showing two Ikrandraco pterosaur species, each with paleoart, a description, a geologic timeline over the Mesozoic, a size comparison next to a human, and a world map of where it lived.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 12/08/2026

Six of the plates from the book are art prints now. 8.5 x 11, $22 each or all six for $95. Half of what we make on each goes to the artist who painted it. All six below, and you can add them by editing your pledge. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading SIX PRINTS from the book, $22 each or all six for $95, half of every sale goes to the artist who painted it. Footer fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 11/08/2026

Fabrizio De Rossi is painting Melkamter pateko for the book. Named in 2024 from Patagonia, it's the oldest known monofenestratan, from the Early Jurassic lineage that later produced the pterodactyloids. Fabrizio has sixteen pages in the guide.

Dark card reading NOW PAINTING above Melkamter pateko in italic, with paleoartist Fabrizio De Rossi's photo in a circle and his ArtStation handle below his name. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 11/08/2026

$32,000. Melkamter pateko is going into the book. Named in 2024 from Patagonia, it's the oldest known member of Monofenestrata, the Early Jurassic lineage that would later produce the pterodactyloids. Next: $34,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $32,000 UNLOCKED above Melkamter pateko in italic, with the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 11/08/2026

Nathan E. Rogers is painting Inabtanin alarabia for the book. Named in 2024 from Jordan, with a wingspan of 17 feet. CT scans of its arm bone show the crisscrossed struts of a flapping flier, not a soarer like its giant neighbor Arambourgiania. Nathan has painted over a dozen plates in the guide.

Dark card reading NOW PAINTING above Inabtanin alarabia in italic, with paleoartist Nathan E. Rogers's photo in a circle and his DeviantArt handle below his name. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 11/08/2026

Joschua Knüppe is painting Makrodactylus oligodontus for the book. A Solnhofen animal named last year, and the smallest adult non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan known, at a 2 foot wingspan. Joschua has more pages in the guide than any other artist.

Dark card reading NOW PAINTING above Makrodactylus oligodontus in italic, with paleoartist Joschua Knuppe's photo in a circle and his name below it. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 10/08/2026

$30,000 unlocked. The wingspan chart is in. Every species in the guide, drawn at one scale. Next up at $32,000 is Melkamter pateko. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $30,000 UNLOCKED above the words The wingspan chart in white, and the line: every species in the guide, side by side at one scale. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 09/08/2026

Add-ons are live. Six plates from the book as 8.5 x 11 art prints, $22 each or all six for $95. Half of what we make on each one goes to the artist who painted it. Plus a signed bookplate, a mascot sticker sheet and extra copies. fossi.ls/ks

Six pterosaur art prints shown on cream, above a photograph of a sticker sheet holding four die-cut pterosaur mascots. Text reads Add-ons are live, prints, extra copies, stickers. Six art prints, $22 each. All six for $95. Sticker sheet $10. Signed bookplate $12.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 09/08/2026

$28,000. Inabtanin alarabia is going into the book. Named in 2024 from Jordan, a 5.3 metre wingspan. CT scans of its arm bone found the dense crisscrossed struts seen in flapping birds, not the pattern found in soarers like its giant neighbour Arambourgiania. Next: $30,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $28,000 UNLOCKED above the species name Inabtanin alarabia in italic, and the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 08/08/2026

$26,000. Makrodactylus oligodontus is going into the book. From the Solnhofen limestones, and the smallest adult non-pterodactyloid monofenestratan known at a 61 cm wingspan. Its species name means few-toothed. Seven teeth in the upper jaw, six in the lower. Next: $28,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $26,000 UNLOCKED above the species name Makrodactylus oligodontus in italic, and the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 07/08/2026

Vitor Silva is painting Torukjara bandeirae for the book. Its bones sat filed under another species until Kamila Bandeira raised the possibility that two species were mixed together in the same Brazilian bonebed. She was right. It's named after her. deviantart.com/vitor-silva

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 06/08/2026

$24,000. Laueropterus vitriolus is going into the book. Named this year from the Mörnsheim limestones in Germany, a metre across, one of the largest early monofenestratans known. Its species name means sulphuric acid, for the etched-looking pitting on the bones. Next: $26,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $24,000 UNLOCKED above the species name Laueropterus vitriolus in italic, and the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 06/08/2026

Lucas Lima is painting Eotephradactylus mcintireae for the book. It's the oldest pterosaur named from North America, described this year from a jaw found in Arizona, about 209 million years old. Roughly the size of a small seagull. Lucas has 34 pages in the guide already. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading NOW PAINTING above Eotephradactylus mcintireae in italic, with a circular portrait of Lucas Lima and his name below it. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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Pterosaurs: The Field Guide @pterosaursfieldguide.com · 05/08/2026

$22,000. Torukjara bandeirae is going into the book. Named in 2024 from a Brazilian bonebed where dozens of tapejarids died together. It sat misidentified as another species until Kamila Bandeira suspected there were two. The name means lord of the toruk. Next: $26,000. fossi.ls/ks

Dark card reading $22,000 UNLOCKED above the species name Torukjara bandeirae in italic, and the line: a new species joins the book. Footer reads fossi.ls/ks.

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