Dr. David Unwin’ talk on pterosaur reproduction
was recorded at the XIV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands and are online as a
YouTube video.
Dr. Unwin is an excellent and engaging speaker. However, some of the issues Dr. Unwin raises have been solved at
www.ReptileEvolution.com
Lepidosaurs carry their eggs internally much longer than archosaurs, some to the point of live birth or hatching within hours of egg laying. Given this, pterosaurs did not have to bury their eggs where hatchlings would risk damaging their fragile membranes while digging out. Rather mothers carried them until hatching. The Mrs. T external egg was prematurely expelled at death, thus the embryo was poorly ossified and small.
Dr. Unwin ignores the fact that hatchlings and juveniles had adult proportions as demonstrated by growth series in
Zhejiangopterus,
Pterodaustro and all others, like the
JZMP embryo (with adult ornithocheirid proportions) and the
IVPP embryo (with adult anurognathid proportions).
Dr. Unwin also holds to the disproved assumption that all Solnhofen sparrow- to hummingbird-sized pterosaurs were juveniles or hatchlings distinct from any adult in the strata. So they can’t be juveniles (see above). Rather these
have been demonstrated to be phylogenetically miniaturized adults and transitional taxa
linking larger long-tailed dorygnathid and
scaphognathid ancestors to larger short-tailed pterodactyloid-grade descendants, as shown at:
www.ReptileEvolution.com/MPUM6009-3.htm
Source:
https://pterosaurheresies.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/dr-david-unwin-on-pterosaur-reproduction-youtube/
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