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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