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Pterodactyl was not the only flying dinosaur. They are not even considered dinosaurs. They are however, condsidered the first flying vertabrates. Other than the Pterosaurs there was Tropeognathus, Quetzalcoatlus (the largest), Pterodaustro, Pterodon, Ornithodesmus, Ctenochasma, and many more.
There were also animals that were adapted for gliding and soaring rather than the bird-like flying we think of today.
However modern birds are considered to be flying dinosaurs.
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One intriguing type of ancient reptile was the pterosaur ("winged lizard"), which includes the pterodactyl ("winged finger"). But these were not dinosaurs, nor were they birds. They were flying reptiles and are classified with other reptiles such as dinosaurs and crocodiles. Some of them had wingspans of 25 feet [8 m]. One discovered in Texas in 1975 indicates that some had wingspans of more than 50 feet [15 m]. These were perhaps the largest animals ever to fly.
While pterosaurs had the teeth, skull, pelvis, and hind feet of a reptile, they in no way resembled the reptilian dinosaurs. And while they appeared to be a bird with stiff aerodynamic wings, they were much different. Like birds, the pterosaurs had hollow bones and few flexible joints in wings and ankles. However, a bird's wings use feathers rather than a membrane as was the case with the pterosaurs. And the fourth finger of the pterosaur forelimb extended to support the wing membrane. In the bird the second finger is the principal support of the wing.
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∙ 14y agoPterodactyl was a genus of pterosaurs and not a dinosaur.
Although they are closely related pterosaurs evolved from the ancestors of dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodilians, the archosaurs before dinosaurs evolved.
The only dinosaurs that could fly where feathered dinosaurs that would one day evolve into birds. (Because of similarities in the morphology of birds and dinosaurs, scientist are actually beginning to consider birds as not only evolving from dinosaurs but actually being dinosaurs in there own right.)
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∙ 12y agoThey were reptiles, but they weren't all huge, nor were all large reptiles dinosaurs. Pterosaurs (flying reptiles), icthyosaurs, plesiosaurs (marine reptiles), and crocodilians were all reptiles that included some very large species, and modern crocodiles can become quite large as well.
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∙ 11y agoPterodactylus were a species of pterosaur. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles, but they were not dinosaurs.
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∙ 8y agoNone were. The flying reptiles of the Mesozoic, called pterosaurs, were not true dinosaurs even though they are often referred to as such.
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Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs.
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Are pterodactyls dinosaurs?
Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.
What are some flying dinosaurs?
pterodactyls quetzalcoatl pneumamicrodactyl biceridactyls
Are flying dinosaurs not called pterodactyls?
No. Pterodactyl was a pterosaur, and pterosaurs were technically not dinosaurs, though they are often incorrectly referred to as such.
Are the dinosaurs that fly belong to dinosaur family?
Pterodactyls and Pterodons are not dinosaurs, but pterosaurs, an order of reptiles all its own. There are flying dinosaurs however; many scientists now agree that modern birds are, in fact, dinosaurs.
Did dinosours fly?
Technically, no, dinosaurs did not fly because the term "dinosaurs" refers to just terrestrial (land-dwelling) reptiles. However, pterosaurs (or pterodactyls) did have the ability to fly.
Were did the pterodactyl?
Pterodactyls were flying reptiles, slowly flourishing during the Mesozoic and disappearing with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Were pterodactyls dinosurs?
Pterodactylus were pterosaurs, and although pterosaurs are often called "flying dinosaurs," they were not dinosaurs. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but they don't share the same common ancestor as dinosaurs and thus don't fall into the clade Dinosauria.
When did pterodactyls start turning into birds?
Pterodactyls never turned into birds. The whole clade Pterosauria went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, and birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs some 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic.
Are the dinosaurs in Dino lab real?
Sorry but no they are not real. The are, actual or smaller size replicas of Dinosaurs the had lived 65 Billion years ago. Currently no known Species of Dinosaurs live on the planet. The closest resemblance of a Dinosaur are birds, which have evolved from Theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, that are currently not extinct. These Theropod dinosaurs a furthermore recognized as pterodactyls. Pterodactyls were the majority of airborne creatures in the Jurassic period and had the highest probability of survival.
What type of dinosurs could fly?
actually no dinosaurs ever flew. pterodactyls and the often called dinobird archaeopteryx were ancient flying creatures, but none of them are classified as dinos.
How did pterodactyls get extinct?
Pterodactyls were a particular type of small, flying reptile. Nobody knows the specific reason pterodactyls died out. However, flying reptiles, or pterosaurs, continued to exist until 65.5 million years ago. At that point, an asteroid crashed into Earth, throwing dust into the air that blocked sunlight long enough to collapse the food chain and wipe out not only dinosaurs, but pterosaurs as well.
How were pterodactyls differant from most dinosaurs?
Pterodactylus and other flying reptiles, collectively known as pterosaurs, do not belong to the clade Dinosauria, and thus aren't dinosaurs. This is because they did not evolve from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. All dinosaurs were terrestrial animals, and with the exception of birds, they couldn't fly. All pterosaurs were winged quadrupeds, and at least most of them were capable of flight.
