When you hear that paleontologists have found a new species of flying reptile and named it for its fang teeth, you assume they chose a name like megadon (lit. big teeth):
Palaeobiologists at the University of Portsmouth in southern England dubbed the remains of the pterosaur found on a beach on the Isle of Wight three years ago Caulkicephalus trimicrodon.Caulkhead is the informal name for natives of the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of England, and trimicrodon means three small teeth.
‘It has massive fang-like front teeth, behind which are three small teeth. Behind those are bigger teeth and then rows of smaller teeth,’ said Dr David Martill, who described the specimen in the journal Cretaceous Research.
‘It was a fish-eater, with a crest on the tip of its snout and a wing span of 5 meters (yards) which would have made it one of the largest flying animals of its time,’ he added in a statement.
When I look at the artist’s rendering, I do not think three small teeth.