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Few pterosaurs got bigger. It's the longest pterosaur skull known, but what's preserved is from a SMALL species, with the BIG one more than twice the size, and may have measured 10 feet. The rear half of the azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus sp. skull shown here is unknown, and the skull from the orbit (eye socket) forward is known primarily from two specimens. This includes only the very front of the crest, which was less than a quarter-inch thick, and the rest of the rear and top of the skull is missing. There is a skull known for the huge azhdarchid Hatzegopterus including the occiput, where the neck attached, which looks much like this, and the skull rear is known for the smaller Zhejiangopterus, but that animal appears to lack a crest.

Description
Few pterosaurs got bigger. It's the longest pterosaur skull known, but what's preserved is from a SMALL species, with the BIG one more than twice the size, and may have measured 10 feet. The rear half of the azhdarchid pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus sp. skull shown here is unknown, and the skull from the orbit (eye socket) forward is known primarily from two specimens. This includes only the very front of the crest, which was less than a quarter-inch thick, and the rest of the rear and top of the skull is missing. There is a skull known for the huge azhdarchid Hatzegopterus including the occiput, where the neck attached, which looks much like this, and the skull rear is known for the smaller Zhejiangopterus, but that animal appears to lack a crest.