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Pterosaurs are often called "flying dinosaurs" by the public. However, pterosaurs were not actually dinosaurs because they didn't evolve from the same species that all dinosaurs evolved from, and thus pterosaurs don't fall into the evolutionary clade Dinosauria.
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Which bones are found in a pterosaur wing?
pterosaur wing bones.
How do you spell teradactyl?
The likely word is the flying dinosaur (pterosaur) called the pterodactyl.
What is the smallest pterosaur?
Nemicolopterus
Is the pterosaur extinct?
yes
Is pterosaur another name for pterodactyl?
No. Pterodacyls and pteranodons were two different types of pterosaur.
What are the predators of the pterosaur?
Pterosaurs are predators.
What was a Pterodactylus?
A small flying Pterosaur.
Is there anything special about the quezalcoatlus dinosaur?
Quetzalcoatlus was not actually a dinosaur; it was a flying reptile, or pterosaur. It is the largest known pterosaur, with a wingspan of up to 36 feet.
What is size of the pterosaur?
The smallest known pterosaur, Nemicolopterus, may have had a wingspan of only 10 inches. The largest known pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, had a 33 foot wingspan and may have weighed as much as 550 pounds. In metric, that is 10 meters and 250 kg, respectively.
What kind of dinosaur was rhamphorhynchus?
Rhamphorhynchus was a pterosaur, not a dinosaur.
What does pterosaurs's name mean?
Pterosaur comes from the Greek words "pteros" and "sauros." "Pteros" means winged, and "sauros" means lizard, so "pterosaur" means "winged lizard."
What does pterosaur mean?
A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
