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Pterosaur (Pterodactyl)

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles which lived between the Late Triassic period, through the Jurassic period until the Late Cretaceous period when the dinosaurs became extinct. The most famous pterosaur is the pterodactyl.

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Could a pterodactyl win a fight against a t-rex?

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As all dinosaurs are extinct, including T-Rex then no.

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In it's time and place, Tyrannosaurus Rex was the top predator; no other predator presented a larger threat than T.Rex. However, in different areas and time periods, there were dinosaurs who were just as menacing, such as the larger Giganotosaurus and powerful Carcharodontosaurus.

Are pterosaurs dinosaurs?

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Pterosaurs are sometimes referred to in the popular media as dinosaurs, but this is incorrect. The term "dinosaur" is properly restricted to a certain group of terrestrial reptiles with a unique upright stance (superorder Dinosauria), and therefore excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct aquatic reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.

Do Pterodactyls have tails?

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Pterodactylus didn't have true fur. However, they did have a covering of hair-like pycnofibers on their necks and parts of their bodies.

How many teeth did a pterodactyl have?

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Actually pterodactyls didn't had any teeth.

How big is the pterodactyls wing?

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Pteranodon Was the size of a small Airplane. Wingspan of up to 8 meters and a skull of approx 1 1/2 meters long

How many pterosaurs are there?

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there are only one species of pterodactyls, but there were other species that were closely related to it though so many kinds but different adaptations , looks, feeding patterns and all sorts of things.

How did it walked pterodactylus?

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Most pterosaurs traveled primarily by flying. However, all pterosaurs were capable of walking. They were quadrupeds, walking by folding their wings and using their wings and feet to bear their weight.

How fast could a pterodactyl fly?

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Very. 2 miles a minute.

How much feet does a pterodactyl have?

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Pterodactylus had two feet, but they walked on their feet as well as their wings, making them quadrupeds. If you are referring to how many feet are in their wingspan, it is estimated that the wingspan of an adult Pterodactylus was about 5 feet.

Is there any symbiotic relationships with pterodactyls?

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Yes, Pterodactylus would have interacted with other species. It would have slept in trees, and during the day it would have hunted various insects, small fish, and small land animals including lizards, amphibians, and primitive mammals.

What did pterodactyl look like?

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Pteradactylus was a flying reptile with a wingspan of about five feet. It had long, narrow jaws with about 90 narrow, conical teeth, and a very small, curved beak at the end of the jaws. It had a long neck covered in hair-like fibers that are called pycnofibers. It had a muscular wing membrane that stretched from its arm and fourth finger to its ankle; the other three fingers made a sort of "hand" that it used for walking (they were quadrupeds) or for climbing. They had short hind legs and a short tail, and a membrane stretched from each side of the tail to the leg on that side.

When was the Pterodactyl fist discovered?

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Pterodactylus was discovered in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany. It was discovered way back in 1784, but it was so different from anything ever seen before that Cosimo Alessandro Collini, the man who described it, thought it was an aquatic creature!

How long do pterosaur s live?

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Pterodactyls only exist as fossils. We do not know how long they lived for but as some of them were quite large it would be reasonable to measure their lifespan in years or 10s of years.

What do pterosaurs dinosaurs eat?

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Pterosaurs were carnivores, which means they ate meat. There are hundreds of known species of pterosaur, and different species hunted different types of prey. Small pterosaurs hunted insects, while larger ones hunted fish, or small land animals like lizards, amphibians, or primitive mammals.

What is the pterodactyl evolution?

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Pterodactylus was a pterosaur, and pterosaurs were archosaurs. All pterosaurs died out 65.5 million years ago. Other types of archosaurs include crocodillians, the dinosaurs, and the birds, which evolved from dinosaurs. The pterosaurs were more closely related to the dinosaurs than they were to crocodillians, so the closest living relatives of pterosaurs are the birds. All birds are equally related to pterosaurs.

What was the climate during the pterodactyl?

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Pterodactylus lived in Europe between 150.8 and 148.5 million years ago. At that time Europe was a group of somewhat dry islands surrounded by shallow seas. The flora on these islands included conifers, cycads, ferns, horsetails, and ginkgoes.

What ate the pterodactyl?

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Predatory dinosaurs, if they were lucky enough to catch them on the ground.

Are pterodactyls dinosaurs?

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Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.

Who named the Pterodactyl?

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Georges Cuvier named the Pterodactylus in 1809. He originally called it Petro-Dactyle, but this was a typographical error, and he changed it to Ptero-Dactyle. Then Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring named it Ornithocephalus antiquus in 1812. In 1815, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque changed Ptero-Dactyle to Pterodactylus to Latinize it, as hyphens aren't allowed in scientific names. According to the rules, Cuvier's name came first, so it takes precedence over von Sömmerring's Ornithocephalus, but von Sömmerring's species name is used. Thus, the complete Latin name for this creature is Pterodactylus antiquus thanks to three different people.

How big do pterodactyls grow?

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Pterodactylus adults probably grew to have a wingspan of about 5 feet. No fossils of adult Pterodactylus have been discovered, so that size is an estimate made by paleontologists, based on the size and development level of the many juvenile Pterodactylus fossils that have been found.

How does the pterodactyl walk?

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Depends on the type of dinosaur.

What is a group of pterodactyls called?

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A "Terror" of Pterodactyls sounds fitting :)

What is the average weight of a pterodactyl?

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The word pterodactyl is a term applied to a number of different flying reptiles. Some 5 dozen different kinds have been recorded, and they range in size from that of a small bird to the really big ones with 40 foot wingspans. They didn't weigh much, though. Remember that they had to fly. The weight of the heaviest of the flying reptiles, those really big ones, was less than 100 pounds.