Another reptile groupPterosaurFish-eater
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The first vertebrates to truly fly, on wings of skin stretched from a hugely long fourth finger. They ranged from sparrow-sized to wingspans of more than 10 metres.
Who it is related to: The closest relatives of the dinosaurs, splitting off in the Triassic, but not dinosaurs, and not the ancestors of birds.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Pterosaurs
- Family
- Rhamphorhynchidae
- When it lived
- 165.3–168.2 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Bathonian
- Named by
- Jagielska et al., 2022
- Fossil occurrences
- 1 sites
Countries with fossils
- United Kingdom
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata