A giant Romanian pterosaur mandible fragment

Vremir et al. 2018
describe a pterosaur mandible fragment (Figs. 1, 2), “This specimen represents the largest pterosaur mandible ever found and provides insights into the anatomy of the enigmatic giant pterosaurs.”

It’s worthwhile
to place the jaw fragment in context with other pterosaurs. We don’t have a similar jaw fragment for the big Quetzalcoatlus (Fig. 2), which likely stood twice as tall as the giant eopteranodontid owner of the jaw fragment. Bakonydraco is a likely eopteranodontid, larger than Eopteranodon, but much smaller than the jaw fragment owner.

Earlier this jaw fragment was used as the basis for restoring the rest of this pterosaur as a giant azhdarchid nicknamed, ‘Dracula’ (with beaucoup errors, Fig. 2).

References
Vremir M et al. 2018. Partial mandible of a giant pterosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the HaÈeg Basin, Romania. Lethaia doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12268 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/let.12268