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The first known tetrapods capable of powered flight, the Pterosaurs were close cousins of Dinosaurs and yet special in their own rights. This order is underrepresented in paleontology conversations. This community is for their avid and casual fans.
The first known tetrapods capable of powered flight, the Pterosaurs were close cousins of Dinosaurs and yet special in their own rights. This order is underrepresented in paleontology conversations. This community is for their avid and casual fans.
News, humor, art, and questions are great, just be polite to each other.
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[Video] - Videos go here, as long as they are pterosaur related of course!
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Possible PTEROSAUR Sighting Reported in Alameda County, California
Possible PTEROSAUR Sighting Reported in Alameda County, California https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2023/12/possible-pterosaur-sighting-reported-in.html - The witness read previous reports sent to me about dragons or possible Pterosaurs seen in South New Jersey. She had an interesting sighting in 2008 in California.
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Can anyone pls identify this pterosaur spec it would help allot
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Landscaper Reports PTEROSAUR Sighting in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
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Fellow pterosaurs fans, can you tell which ones these are?
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Lusognathus almadrava, a new gnathosaurine pterosaur from Late Jurassic Portugal. Art by Jason Brougham.
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Flight of Tupandactylus Imperator [John Conway]
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Balaenognathus maeuseri, a newly described filter feeding pterosaur from Germany. Art by Joschua Knüppe
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Anurognathid pterosaur by Gabriel Ugueto
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Pterodaustro by @amberghiniiii
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Pterodactylus by Mark Witton
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Ludodactylus by Vitor Silva. Ludus refers to the fact, long lamented by paleontologists, that many toy pterosaurs combined teeth with a Pteranodon-like head crest, while no such creature was known to exist — however, Ludodactylus shows exactly this combination of features.
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Quetzalcoatlus by Corbin Rainbolt.
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Anurognathus ammoni by @lans_snows.
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Tacuadactylus luciae a Ctenochasmatid pterosaur from Late Jurassic South America. Artwork by Gabriel Ugueto.
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Thalassodromeus and the birth of the Tycho crater, 108 million years ago. Art by Julius T. Csotonyi
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A Thalassodromeus snaps the neck of an Anhanguera with its powerful skull. Art by ToshaHollmann2
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Thanatosdrakon amaru, a new species of azhdarchid pterosaur from the upper Coniacian-lower Santonian Plottier Formation of western Argentina. Art by Vitor Silva.
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Tupandactylus imperator by John Conway
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Tapejara by Gabriel Ugueto
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Cryodrakon ("cold dragon") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Canada. It was about the same size as Quetzalcoatlus with a 10 m wingspan, it had an extraordinarily long neck, but was more robust and therefore heavier than its Texan kin.
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Pteranodon by Rudolf Hima
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Sordes pilosus investigates a Jurassic land snail in a Late Jurassic forest of Kazakhstan. Art by Mark Witton
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