The  Shrewsbury pterosaur fossils are kept at Rowley's House Museum.
 

Peter Boyd, Shrewsbury Museums Service, Rowley's House Museum, Barker Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire   SY1 1QH UK  Tel: 01743 361196

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Pterodactylus longirostris 
CAST, Pes and tibiotarsus, previously "Rhamphorhynchus grandis" from Eichstadt, Bavaria.  (NHM 42737) donated by Mr T.B. Barrett in 1883

Pterodactylus elegans
CAST, of whole specimen, positive and negative.  possibly Pt. elegans or a small Pt. kochi (NHM 37359) donated by Mr T.B. Barrett in 1883

Criorhynchus sp. 
Jaw, anterior premaxilla fragment with two tooth roots 3.4 cm long. The palatines are also visible on this specimen.  Cambridge Greensand at Bottisham.  Canon Wyley Collection.

Ornithocheirus sp.
Wing phalange, two fragments, Cambridge Greensand.  Canon Wyley Collection.
Wing metacarpal, distal fragment with articular surface absent, measuring 3.9 cm.
Wing phalange, proximal end with articular surface, measuring 3.5 cm.

Pterosaur  distal ding phalange, 4 cm, Great Oolite, Stonesfield.  This is from a rhamphorhynchoid species, possibly Rhamphocephalus.

Ornithosaur  8 fragments in a small tray,  Cambridge Greensand.  (marked - DMS Oct 1982 - see photographs)
193 Non-pterosaur
232 Non-pterosaur
232 Wing carpal of an Ornithosaur
232 Indeterminate bone fragment
233 Partial quadrate bone, upper half
233 Ornithocheirus, head of humerus
234 distal fragment of lower mandible, very worn

Ornithosaur  12 fragments in a small tray,  Cambridge Greensand.  (marked - DMS Oct 1982 - see photographs)
229 Cervical vertebra, Ornithocheirus sp.
229 Atlas vertebra, Ornithocheirus sp.
23? Skull bone fragment
230 Thoracic vertebra section
230 Worn cervical vertebra
231 Skull bone fragment
231 Skull bone fragment
232 Skull bone fragment
232 Non-pterosaur
234 Lower mandible, Ornithosaur
234 Proximal humerus showing most of articular surface, 4.8 cm long and 3.6 cm wide
 

Updated April 2004