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Laopteryx
Laopteryx priscum is the name assigned to a pterosaur (flying reptile) or a bird from the Upper Jurassic of Wyoming, USA. A partial skull was discovered at Como Bluff by Othniel Marsh in 1881, who identified it as a bird.
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