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Pterosaur fossil, ulna bone found at Mangahouanga, New Zealand

In 1988 Joan Wiffen published a co-authored paper on the first pterosaur fossil found in New Zealand. The ulna bone was found at Mangahouanga by Trevor Crabtree. The pterosaur fossil is held in GNS Science’s National Paleontology Collection.

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