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Volaticotherium antiquum (meaning "ancient gliding beast") is an extinct, gliding, insectivorous mammal that lived in Asia during the Jurassic period, around 164 mya. It is the only member of the genus Volaticotherium .
The small Mauritian flying fox or dark flying fox (Pteropus subniger), known as a rougette to early French travelers, is an extinct species of megabat. It lived on the islands of Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean .
In 1800, Johann Hermann first suggested that it represented a flying creature in a letter to Georges Cuvier. Cuvier agreed in 1801, understanding it was an extinct flying reptile. [95] In 1809, he coined the name Ptéro-Dactyle, "wing-finger". [96] This was in 1815 Latinised to Pterodactylus. [97]
Pterodactylus (from Ancient Greek: πτεροδάκτυλος, romanized: pterodáktylos ' winged finger ' [2]) is a 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 as a flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.
Argentavis is an extinct genus of teratornithid known from three sites in the Epecuén and Andalhualá Formations in central and northwestern Argentina dating to the Late Miocene (Huayquerian). The type species, A. magnificens, is sometimes called the giant teratorn.
It is known from a humerus, parts of the cranium, beak, sternum, and vertebrae which indicate an estimated wingspan of over 4 metres (13 ft). The find dates to the Late Pleistocene, between 11,000 and 12,000 years ago, in a stratum which is filled with the bones of mastodons, sloths, and condors, and has evidence of human habitation.
Pterosaurs, extinct non-dinosaurian flying reptiles; Archaeornithes, extinct primitive flying bird-like dinosaurs, e.g. Archaeopteryx; Neornithes, modern birds which are the only surviving dinosaurs; Scansoriopterygidae, an extinct family of climbing and gliding dinosaurs; Other (extinct) members of the clade Avialae, perhaps also other ...
Palaeognathae contains five extant orders consisting of four flightless lineages (plus two that are extinct), termed ratites, and one flying lineage, the Neotropic tinamous. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] There are 47 species of tinamous, five of kiwis ( Apteryx ), three of cassowaries ( Casuarius ), one of emus ( Dromaius ) (another became extinct in historic ...