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The split between dinosaurs and pterosaurs occurred just after aphanosaurs branched off the archosaur family tree. This split corresponds to the subgroup Ornithodira (Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) + δειρή (deirḗ, “throat”), defined as the last common ancestor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, and all of its descendants ...
Timeline showing the development of the extinct reptilian order Pterosauria from its appearance in the late Triassic period to its demise at the end of the Cretaceous, together with an alphabetical listing of pterosaur species and their geological ages.
Pterosaurs [b] [c] 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 of the Cretaceous (228 million to 66 million years ago). [8] Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.
This timeline of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions of pterosaurs, the famed flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era. Although pterosaurs went extinct millions of years before humans evolved, humans have coexisted with pterosaur fossils for ...
Different phylogenetic analyses found it as a basal pterosauromorph, [4] [5] a non-aphanosaurian, non-pterosaur basal avemetatarsalian, a basal dinosauromorph, [11] or a basal archosauriform. [12] This has resulted in a large gap between the fully aerial pterosaurs and their terrestrial ancestors, as the earliest pterosaurs were already capable ...
A team led by palaeontologists at the University of Edinburgh used new laser technology to study the tail vane on a 150-million-year-old fossil.
Anurognathidae is a family of small, short-tailed pterosaurs that lived in Europe, Asia, and possibly North America during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Five genera are known: Anurognathus, from the Late Jurassic of Germany; Jeholopterus, from the Middle to Late Jurassic of China; [2] Dendrorhynchoides, from the Middle Jurassic [3] of China; Batrachognathus, from the Late Jurassic of ...
Peteinosaurus (/ p ɛ ˌ t aɪ n ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / peh-TY-nə-SOR-əs; [1] meaning "winged lizard") was a prehistoric genus of pterosaur.It lived in the late Triassic period in the late Norian age (about 218-215 million years ago), [2] and at a wingspan of around 60 cm (24 in), was one of the smallest and earliest pterosaurs, [3] although other estimates suggest a wingspan of up to 1 m (3.3 ...