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The early rhamphorhynchine catches the fish. Or so they say, at least. This individual is flying low over the rolling waves and calm breezes of the early morning. Behind it, the rising sun casts its bright white reflection on the waves. Perhaps it will catch a prey item before competition soars in.

I cheated on this scene and simply reused the rhamphorhynchine model I used for “Mid-jurassic Mangrove Sunset”. The background is from a picture I took a few days ago, while returning from a field expedition. Everything was the same except for the pterosaur; in its place is a gannet flying over the waters of the Gulf of the Saint-Lawrence. In other words, the only computer-generated part of this scene is the rhamphorhynchine.

© Louis-Philippe Bateman

References:

O’Sullivan, M., & Martill, D. (2018). Pterosauria of the Great Oolite Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian) of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, England, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63(4). doi.org/10.4202/app.00490.2018

Witton, M. (2013). Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Princeton University Press, 304 p.

Description
The early rhamphorhynchine catches the fish. Or so they say, at least. This individual is flying low over the rolling waves and calm breezes of the early morning. Behind it, the rising sun casts its bright white reflection on the waves. Perhaps it will catch a prey item before competition soars in.

I cheated on this scene and simply reused the rhamphorhynchine model I used for “Mid-jurassic Mangrove Sunset”. The background is from a picture I took a few days ago, while returning from a field expedition. Everything was the same except for the pterosaur; in its place is a gannet flying over the waters of the Gulf of the Saint-Lawrence. In other words, the only computer-generated part of this scene is the rhamphorhynchine.

© Louis-Philippe Bateman

References:

O’Sullivan, M., & Martill, D. (2018). Pterosauria of the Great Oolite Group (Middle Jurassic, Bathonian) of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, England, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63(4). doi.org/10.4202/app.00490.2018

Witton, M. (2013). Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Princeton University Press, 304 p.