Another reptile groupPterosaurFish-eater
Peteinosaurus
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
- Dimorphodontidae
- When it lived
- 211.18–215.38 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Norian
- Named by
- Wild, 1978
- Fossil occurrences
- 2 sites
Countries with fossils
- Italy
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata