Pterosauria

Angustinaripterus

Angustinaripterus
Scale 9 Diat: carnivore , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

7 POINTS

Play: Angustinaripterus had a FLIGHT of 2.
Fact: This pterosaur had an unusual long snout studded with about two dozen forward-curving teeth. It may have fed on fish.

warm, hot
Graphic by Dinosaurs Unearthedwww.dinosaursunearthed.com/
Angustinaripterus was a basal pterosaur, belonging to the Breviquartossa, and discovered at Dashanpu near Zigong in the Szechuan province of China. Angustinaripterus was named in 1983 by He Xinlu. The type species is Angustinaripterus longicephalus. The genus name is derived from Latin angustus, “narrow” and naris, “nostril”, combined with Latinized Greek pteron, “wing”. The specific […] read more

Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Scale 9 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

EXTINCT | 5 POINTS

Play: FLIGHT of 2.
Anhanguera means “Old Devil.” The bumps on the tip of its bill may have helped stabilize its head when snatching fish as they leapt out of the water!

warm, hot
Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Anhanguera (meaning “old devil”) is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous (Aptianage, 112Ma) Santana Formation of Brazil, with referred specimens found in the Upper Chalk Formation andCambridge Greensand of the UK (up to the late Cenomanian age, 94Ma). This pterosaur is closely related toOrnithocheirus, and belongs in the family Ornithocheiridae within its […] read more

Scaphognathus

Scaphognathus
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

EXTINCT | 4 POINTS

Play: FLIGHT of 1.
Scaphognathus means “fat snout” in Latin. It has been found in Germany and may have had a good sense of sight.

warm, hot
Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Scaphognathus was a pterosaur that lived around Germany during the Late Jurassic. It had a wingspan of 0.9 m (3 ft). (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more

Dsungaripterus weii

Dsungaripterus weii
Scale 8 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

EXTINCT | 5 POINTS

Play: FLIGHT of 2.
Dsungaripterus was first found in China in the Junggar Basin. Its jaw was designed to catch and eat fish, but rather to dig up clams along the beach and crush them with its large flat teeth.

warm, hot
Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Dsungaripterus was a genus of pterosaur, with an average wingspan of 3 metres (9.8 ft).[1] It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin. Dsungaripterus weii had a wing span of 3 to 3.5 metres (9.8-11.5 ft). Its skull, forty to fifty centimetres long, bore a low bone […] read more

Rhamphorhynchus muensteri

Rhamphorhynchus muensteri
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

EXTINCT | 4 POINTS

Play: FLIGHT of 1.
Rhamphorhynchus means “beak snout.” This pterosaur has been found in Germany. It had a very long tail, and its long needle-like teeth helped it catch fish over open water.

warm, hot
Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Rhamphorhynchus /ˌræmfəˈrɪŋkəs/, “beak snout”, is a genus of long-tailed pterosaurs in the Jurassic period. Less specialized than contemporary, short-tailed pterodactyloid pterosaurs such as Pterodactylus, it had a long tail, stiffened with ligaments, which ended in a characteristic diamond-shaped vane. The jaws of Rhamphorhynchus housed needle-like teeth, which were angled forward, with a curved, sharp, beak-like […] read more

Pterodactylus antiquus

Pterodactylus antiquus
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here .
Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

EXTINCT | 4 POINTS

Play: FLIGHT of 1.
These were the first pterosaurs ever to be identified, found in 1784 by the German scientist Cosimo Alessandro Collini for the wonder cabinet he curated.

warm, hot
Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Pterodactylus (/ˌtɛrəˈdæktɨləs/ terr-ə-dak-til-əs, from the Greek πτεροδάκτυλος, pterodaktulos, meaning “winged finger”) is a genus of pterosaurs, whose members are popularly known as pterodactyls ( /ˌtɛrəˈdæktɨlz/). It is currently thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, the first pterosaur species to be named and identified as a flying reptile. The fossil remains of this […] read more