Pterosaurs are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end...
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Pterosaurs included the largest flying animals ever to have lived. They are a clade of prehistoric archosaurian reptiles closely related to dinosaurs....
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This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms...
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Pteranodon (category Late Cretaceous pterosaurs of North America)
'wing' and ἀνόδων, anodon 'toothless')[better source needed] is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps...
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Pterodactylus (category Late Jurassic pterosaurs of Europe)
genus of extinct pterosaurs. It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and identified...
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Anhanguera (Portuguese: [ɐɲɐ̃ˈɡwɛɾɐ] ) is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Early Cretaceous (Albian age, 125 to 112 million years ago)...
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Quetzalcoatlus (category Late Cretaceous pterosaurs of North America)
Quetzalcoatlus /kɛtsəlkoʊˈætləs/ is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age of North America. Its name comes...
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Ganzhou Ruishi F.C. (redirect from Shaoxing Shangyu Pterosaur F.C.)
Dingnan County. Shaoxing Jiayu Pterosaur F.C. was founded in 2017. In 2019, the club changed its name to Shaoxing Shangyu Pterosaur F.C.. The club participated...
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of pterosaurs entails the various phylogenetic trees used to classify pterosaurs throughout the years and varying views of these animals. Pterosaur phylogeny...
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Rhamphorhynchus (redirect from Rhamphorhynchus (pterosaur))
genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus...
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at the end of the Cretaceous, together with an alphabetical listing of pterosaur species and their geological ages. Angustinarhipterus longicephalus: Bathonian-Callovian...
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This timeline of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic...
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Pterosaur Beach (French: Plage aux Ptérosaures) is a French palaeoichnologic site bearing tracks made by dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Located on the Mas...
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Tapejara wellnhoferi (redirect from Tapejara (pterosaur))
(from a Tupi word meaning "the lord of the ways") is a genus of Brazilian pterosaur from the Cretaceous Period (Santana Formation, dating to about 127 to...
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stratigraphic units, where pterosaur fossils have been recovered from. Units listed are all either formation rank or higher (e.g. group). Pterosaur List of fossil...
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dictionary. Pterodactyl is an informal term for pterosaurs, based on the genus of the first pterosaur known to science, Pterodactylus antiquus. Pterodactyl...
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two most successful groups of avemetatarsalians were the dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals for much of the Mesozoic...
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Nemicolopterus (category Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia)
dubious genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur, based on a very small specimen described as the smallest known "adult" pterosaur to date. It lived in the Jehol...
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Maastrichtian (section Pterosaurs)
event. Traditionally, pterosaur faunas of the Maastrichtian were assumed to be dominated by azhdarchids, with other pterosaur groups having become extinct...
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Hatzegopteryx (category Late Cretaceous pterosaurs of Europe)
Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuş Ciula Formation, an outcropping...
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2024 in archosaur paleontology (section Pterosaurs)
muensteri, aiming to reconstruct the cervical arthrology of pterosaurs and the position of the pterosaur neck at rest, is published by Buchmann & Rodrigues (2024)...
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Azhdarchidae (category Pterosaur families)
azhdar, اژدر, a dragon-like creature in Persian mythology) is a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the Late Cretaceous Period, though an isolated vertebra...
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Campylognathoides (redirect from Campylognathus (pterosaur))
Campylognathoides is an extinct genus of pterosaur discovered in the Württemberg Lias deposits (dated to the early Toarcian age) of Germany; this first...
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Alcione elainus (redirect from Alcione (pterosaur))
Alcione is a genus of pterosaur from the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, dating back to the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period. Only one...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (film) (category Fiction about pterosaurs)
telepathic techniques, and he unintentionally hatches a 135 million year-old pterosaur egg within the National Museum of Natural History. This results in the...
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Ceoptera (category Middle Jurassic pterosaurs)
Ceoptera (meaning "mist wing") is an extinct genus of darwinopteran pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic Kilmaluag Formation of Scotland. The genus contains...
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with the player attempting to avoid oncoming obstacles such as cacti and pterosaurs by jumping or ducking. Pressing space, ↑, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile...
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extinct relatives of birds and crocodilians such as non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs, phytosaurs, aetosaurs and rauisuchians as well as many Mesozoic marine...
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Scaphognathus (redirect from Brachytrachelus (pterosaur))
Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft). The first known Scaphognathus specimen...
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Tropeognathus (category Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of South America)
Tropeognathus (meaning "keel jaw") is a genus of large pterosaurs from the late Early Cretaceous of South America. This genus is considered to be a member...
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