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Cosimo Collini
Cosimo Collini was an Italian naturalist. In 1784, he described the first pterosaur. Collini misinterpreted his specimen as a seagoing creature that used its long front limbs as paddles.[1]
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- ^ Collini, C A. (1784). "Sur quelques Zoolithes du Cabinet d’Histoire naturelle de S. A. S. E. Palatine & de Bavière, à Mannheim." Acta Theodoro-Palatinae Mannheim 5 Pars Physica, pp. 58–103 (1 plate).
