Pteranodon Geosternbergia Silva (Digital Painting)

•Creation
Pteranodon was successfully recreated by InGen in their lab where they were fed and parented in captivity being raised in the Aviary.
There were three variations of the cloned Pteranodon, which all had abnormal features that their original counterpart lacked. However, there were common characteristics exhibited in the clones such as a lack of pycnofibres on their bodies, which all pterosaurs had, was adapted to different regions than the original, and the ability to use their hind legs for grasping. They did not appear to have any sexual dimorphism. The geneticists probably removed sexual dimorphism from the recreations because they wanted all the clones to born female and Pteranodon's famous crest belonged only to males in the genus.
This variation has many characteristics of birds that can be seen in its bipedal gait and neck posture with a hooked beak. Their bodies were black with the wing membrane being tan and the back of the wings being dark brown. Their heads were blue with a yellow beak.

•Paleontology
Pteranodon was first found by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1870, in the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk deposits of western Kansas. The first pterosaur discovered outside of Europe, it was originally deemed a species of the much smaller and earlier Pterodactylus, but that changed when its skull was discovered, and thus its lack of teeth lend it its name. Since then, hundreds of specimens have been found, from all stages of development.
Originally, many different Pteranodon species were named, due to some individuals being larger and having a noticeable crest, but paleontologists have discovered those differences are due to sexual dimorphism, with females being smaller and crestless. Today, only two species are generally recognized: the traditional, straight crested Pteranodon longiceps, and the curve-crested Pteranodon sternbergi, which is sometimes classified as its own separate genus, Geosternbergia.

•Paleoecology
Pteranodon lived 88 to 80 million years ago, in the Western Interior Seaway, a swallow sea that split what is now North America into two continents, and more precisely in what is now the Niobrara Formation. Pteranodon shared its habitat with its smaller relative Nyctosaurus, toothed birds Ichthyornis and Hesperornis, plesiosaur Elasmosaurus, a large diversity of mosasaurs including Tylosaurus, and a huge array of both sharks and bony fishes.
A proven piscivore, Pteranodon is one of the few mesozoic reptiles whose breeding strategy is known by paleontologists. Due to the smaller females being far more common than the males, even in bonebeds, it is likely Pteranodon was polygynous, with a single male mating with a large number of females, who would be the sole providers of parental care.

•Diet: Piscivore 🐟
•Era: Late Cretaceous
•Family: Pteranodontidae
•Dig Sites: Pierre Shale; Smoky Hill Chalk
•Height: 2 meters (6 feet 6.74 inches)
•Wingspan: 7.25 meters (23 feet 9.433 inches)
•Weight: 55 kilograms (121.3 pounds)
•Range: Redwood National & State Parks (Northern California)
•Birth Type: Egg
•Date: December 23rd, 2020 8:45 P.M.
•Size: 79.04 KB
•Resolution: 1620 x 1215
•Digital Width: 3200 px
•Digital Height: 2400 px