Pterosaur (Pterodactyl)

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.

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.

Very. 2 miles a minute.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs. They were flying reptiles.

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.

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.

Depends on the type of dinosaur.

A "Terror" of Pterodactyls sounds fitting :)

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.

Pterosaurs probably were not social, although they may have gathered during breeding season. Many of them had elaborate crests, which were probably meant to attract mates. When they laid eggs, they probably did not incubate them or protect them, and young pterosaurs had to fend for themselves right away. Fossil evidence suggests they would have been capable of flight within days of birth. Pterosaurs all seem to be carnivorous. Small pterosaurs would have eaten insects and small vertebrates, while large pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Geosternbergia ate fish. The largest known pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus, however, did not live near a body of water that would provide enough fish to eat, so their diet is unknown.

Pterodactylus fossils date to between 150.8 and 148.5 million years ago. Thus, they existed for about 2.3 million years.

All dinosaurs are basically like animals they arent blind their colour blind which makes them only see black and white.

There are at least 135 known genera of pterosaur, and each genus has at least one species. Different species had different diets, but all known pterosaurs were carnivores. Some ate insects, others ate fish, and some at small land animals like lizards, amphibians, and primitive mammals. There were even a few types that were filter feeders similar to flamingoes, which eat brine shrimp.

The bones in their wings are hollow- unlike humans and other organisms. Plus they have these special feathers that are really long and help them fly. If those feathers are clipped, then the bird can't fly- but it can jump only a few feet. If you go to your local vet/pet store( the local pet store where I live clips the wings) and ask them to clip your bird's wings, then you yourself can see where they are. Or you could just ask them. ^^

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.

No. Pterosaurs share a common ancestor with the dinosaurs, but are not classed as dinosaurs themselves. Birds, however, descend from a group of dinosaurs called theropods; the earliest bird know, Archaeopteryx, dates to about 150 million years ago. The theropods also include dinosaurs such as T. rex, velociraptors, and other bird-like dinosaurs.