Harpactognathus gentryii (har-pakt-og-nathe-us jen-tree-ee-eye) was a scaphognathine #pterosaur, related to #Scaphognathus, and more distantly, #Rhamphorhynchus! It lived in what's now Wyoming during the late #Jurassic.
Its generic name translates to "snatching jaw", in reference to how #toothy and gnarly those #jaws would have been.

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Watercolour painting of Scaphognathus.

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