A pterosaur from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) of the Ardennes (northeastern France) (Un ptérosaure dans le Toarcien (Jurassique inférieur) des Ardennes (NE de la France))

A pterosaur tibia-fibula is described from Toarcian shales ("Marne de Flize") near the city of Charleville-Mezieres (Ardennes, northeastern France). The morphology of this element, especially the reduced fibula partially fused to the tibia, suggests that it belongs to the rhamphorhynchid Dorygnathus , which is well represented in the Toarcian Posidonienschiefer of Germany and has also been reported from the Toarcian of Nancy (eastern France).