- provide an on line bibliography of pterosaur material.
- provide an on line list of specimens available for examination in museum
collections
within the United Kingdom. (This may eventually extend to some
world wide museums)
- give guidance in the identification of specimens. (under development)
- display selected articles and papers on line. (this may take some years to
fully achieve)
- offer E-mail and written support to researchers.
- support enquiries from students.
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Pterodactylus
antiquus
Cosimo Collini was born in Florence, Italy on 14 October 1727. Collini described a fossil that Karl Theodore found in a cupboard at the palace at Manheim in 1757 The fossil was handed over to Collini in 1764.
This was the first recorded pterosaur fossil.
The pterosaur database provides a selection of archived papers which can be downloaded for personal use.