pterosaur in English

noun
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an extinct warm-blooded flying reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, with membranous wings supported by a greatly lengthened fourth finger, and probably covered with fur.
The genus Pteranodon includes several species of large pterosaurs from the Cretaceous period in North America.

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1. Paleontology portal List of dinosaurs List of plesiosaurs List of pterosaur classifications Pterosaur Timeline of pterosaur research Haaramo, Mikko (15 November 2005).

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3. A fuzzy integument was first reported from a specimen of Scaphognathus crassirostris in 1831 by Goldfuss, and recent pterosaur finds and the technology for histological and ultraviolet examination of pterosaur specimens have provided incontrovertible proof: pterosaurs had pycnofiber coats.

4. They represent a "grab-bag" taxon for any Archosaur that wasn't a crocodilian, a pterosaur, or a dinosaur

5. Katsufumi Sato, a Japanese scientist, did calculations using modern birds and concluded that it was impossible for a pterosaur to stay aloft.

6. Bird, bat, and pterosaur wings are analogous structures, but their forelimbs are homologous, sharing an ancestral state despite serving different functions.

7. Xu by letter informed the director of the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History at Hangzhou, Ming Hua, who from it understood the remains were those of an unknown pterosaur.

8. However, modern bats and flying squirrels show considerable variation in the extent of their wing membranes and it is possible that, like these groups, different species of pterosaur had different wing designs.

9. The pterosaur genera Pterodactylus, Scaphognathus, and Tupuxuara have been inferred to be diurnal, Ctenochasma, Pterodaustro, and Rhamphorhynchus have been inferred to be nocturnal, and Tapejara has been inferred to be cathemeral, being active throughout the day for short intervals.

10. Archosaur: 1 n group of extinct reptiles including dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts Synonyms: Archosaurian , Archosaurian reptile Types: show 16 types hide 16 types dinosaur any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era flying reptile , pterosaur an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and