Stan Winston’s JP3 pterosaur – What kind is it?
Jurassic Park III included a Pteranodon-like pterosaur attacking our intrepid heroes in a sort of a giant “bird” cage. On YouTube you can find an early test (Fig. 1) of this mechanized toothless pterosaur suit. In the film, teeth were added.
Figure 1. Stan Winston Pteranodon suit, sans teeth, for Jurassic Park 3. Click to see video. There appears to be a man inside and also one outside working the jaws, I suppose, with radio controlled servos. Note the big feet, large enough to house a person. The elbows are turned out obscenely laterally, which rotates the fingers anteriorly, which seems right, but is wrong. And finally, there’s that wrinkly blanket-like web membrane that refuses to go away.
So, is this Pteranodon? Looks close. Here’s a reconstruction of a real Pteranodon for comparison (Fig. 2) where a longer beak, a longer metacarpus and a shorter forearm (antebrachium) are present.
Figure 2. The Triebold Pteranodon, one of the most complete ever found. The metacarpals are quite a bit longer here. So is the beak.
For comparison, here’s a toothy, short metacarpal ornithocheirid, Anhanguera (Fig. 3). Like the JP3 pterosaur, this one has a longer antebrachium and shorter metatarsus.
The metacarpals, antebrachia and skull size of this ornithocheirid pterosaur are closer to the Stan Winston version. Teeth were also added in the movie version creating a specimen very much like the later discovered crested ornithocheirid, Ludodactylus (Fig. 3 upper, smaller skull).
Figure 4. Jurassic Park 3 logo, including a nice Pteranodon in ventral view with narrow chord wings. Compare this to the Pteranodons in the PterosaurHeresies masthead (the faux book cover). Later I spread the legs and added uropatagia.
Movie-makers have often taken liberties with their dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Rather than bitching about ‘em, you just gotta love ‘em and snicker if you’re “in the know.” Here’s the scene, again from YouTube, of the JP3 pterosaurs in action (Fig. 5).
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