- term for
pterodactyloid pterosaurs,
though it can also be used to
refer to
Pterodactylus specifically. Well-known
examples of
pterodactyloids include Pterodactylus...
- land vertebrates.
Later pterosaurs (
pterodactyloids)
evolved many sizes, shapes, and lifestyles.
Pterodactyloids had
narrower wings with free hindlimbs...
-
Before its naming,
Propterodactylus was
referred to as the "Painten pro-
pterodactyloid" in the
scientific literature. The
Propterodactylus holotype specimen...
- finger", in
reference to the Tupi
thunder god) is a
genus of
tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the
Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Tupandactylus...
-
Cearadactylus is a
genus of
large anhanguerid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the
Romualdo Formation of Brazil,
South America.
Fossil remains of Cearadactylus...
- the Jur****ic period. Less
specialized than contemporary, short-tailed
pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail,
stiffened with...
-
Kryptodrakon is an
extinct genus of
pterodactyloid pterosaur from the
Middle to Late Jur****ic with an age of
approximately 162.7
million years. It is known...
- the
skull are
merged into a
single fenestra. The
clade includes the
pterodactyloids and
their close relatives. The
clade Monofenestrata was in 2010 defined...
-
Kepodactylus is an
extinct genus of
ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian-age
Upper Jur****ic
Morrison Formation of Colorado...
-
Changchengopterus is a
genus of non-
pterodactyloid pterosaur from
Qinglong County in
Hebei Province, China. The
fossil specimen,
holotype CYGB-0036, of...
