The pride of this museum is an excellent specimen of Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi showing some soft part preservation.  The museum also has a flight of 20 fine model pterosaurs on display.

Pterodactylus antiquus
Specimen. CAST small and symmetrically preserved in counterpart. Originally classified as Pterodactylus spectabilis.

Rhamphorhynchus muensteri
Specimen. CAST showing wing membrane and tail.  Yale specimen.

Scaphognathus crassirostris
Specimen. CAST of skull, upper body and wing bones

Rhamphorhynchus gemmingi. 
1994.13.1  Specimen, complete with soft part preservation (shown above)

Indeterminate Pterosaur Specimens
1886.24.11  Limb bone, Folkstone, Kent.
1969.32.01  Bone (Sectioned limb bone) Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.02  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.03  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.04  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.05  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.06  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.07  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.08  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.09  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
1969.32.10  Limb bone, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.
 

Pterosaur (models)
Models of 18 Pterodactyls and 2 Rhamphorhynchus in flight, made by Joyce Collard in 1975.  These models were commissioned to be displayed suspended from the gallery ceiling.

Museum Reference Texts

Paton, R. L., 1975, A catalogue of Fossil Vertebrates in  the Royal Scottish Museum, part 4, Amphibia and Reptilia. Royal Scottish Museum Information Service, Geology 9. p.70.

1969.32.01 mentioned in Campbell J. G. 1966, pp. 170,173.

Catalogue number prefix - NMS.G.

Updated Dec 2001