New Armored Dinosaur & new Pterosaur coloring pages

 This is my new coloring pages blog.

Today's new drawings are of a recently discovered small armored dinosaur and 

a small Pterosaur with a long long beak.  

Leptostomia & Jakapil

(This is a pencil drawing.)

Leptostomia & Jakapil ink drawing

Today's new post is of two unique animals from the Mesozoic Era.  One is a small  Pterosaur and the other is a small dinosaur.  Both of these animals have some very unusual traits.  Both of these animals are from the Mid-Cretaceous Period of about 100 million years ago. 

Leptostomia was a small animal.  It was a Pterosaur that lived in what is now Morocco.  It had a long beak like a modern  Avocet bird. It must have probed muddy places for worms and shellfish etc. Peptostomia was only 2 feet long and its beak was 1 foot of that length.  So this Pterosaur was probably a wader.  It also had fairly long legs for a Pterosaur.  

Jakapil was another small Cretaceous animal.  It was about the size of a medium-sized dog. It had teeth on the bottom that were different from the top teeth.  It appears to be an herbivore so it ate plants. Its teeth show evidence of wear so unlike many plant-eating dinosaurs, it chewed its food. 

This dinosaur is related to Stegosaurs yet its closest known evolutionary relative lived 200 million years ago.  That means 100 million years before Jakapil.  

So, the pritable version of these drawings are found by clicking on the "Paleontology" button and scrolling down to the bottom of the list.  By the way, I added the second drawing (done in ink) today.  The original post only had the top drawing.