Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae (vol. 5)
Title: “Sur quelques zoolithes du cabinet d’histoire naturelle de S.A.S.E. palatine et de Baviere, a Mannheim”
Medium: non-fiction article
Publication date: 1784
Publisher: Mannheim
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Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae is also known as: Acta Theodoro-Palatinae Mannheim 5 Pars Physica.
The animal now known as Pterodactylus was the first pterosaur ever to be identified. The first Pterodactylus specimen was described by the Italian scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini in 1784. Artist Egid Verhelst created the engraving which illustrated the specimen. This was in paper which appeared on pages 58-103 in volume 5 Phys. of Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae.