The bones, unearthed in western Queensland by museum creator Kevin Petersen in 2021, have been found to belong to a newly identified species of pterosaur, dubbed Haliskia peterseni, or "Peterson's phantom of the sea".

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A research team led by Ph. D Adele Pentland, of Curtin University, Australia, identified the specimen as a member of the group Ornithocheiromorpha, based on the shape of its skull, arrangement of teeth, and the form of its shoulder bone.