Describing a Dragon

The description of Guidraco written by Wang, et al. in 2012 is available online with 15 different websites hosting the article or links to the article. The phylogenetic relationships of Guidraco and other pterosaurs are briefly described at the end of the paper, but the most important portion of the paper is the actual physical description of the pterosaur. This description includes a number of high detailed photographs of the fossil as well as detailed line drawings that point out individual bones of the skull. That, in turn, informs an accurate reconstruction of the skull which also accompanies the description of the fossil. The postcranial skeleton is also described in great detail in the paper, but is not illustrated in the reconstruction, but is labelled in the initial line drawing and shown in the details of the photographs.