AMNH Pterosaur Starter Deck

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This deck uses images and information from the vast collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, especially the 2014 special exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. The game consists of 38 different cards, includes “extinct” organisms, and utilizes a simplified version of the game to compensate for unavailable facts.

AMNH PTEROSAUR DECK

Home Card
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Pterosaurs: The Card Game uses images and information from the vast collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, especially the 2014 special exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.

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RELEVANT LINKS Buy a deck Download printable cards and rules (15Mb pdf) | mirror download Pterosaurs: The Card Game App (iOS) American Museum of Natural History Homepage. Exhibit Homepage Get More Cards How To Play DETAILED CARD LIST Click here. RELEASE DATES: Web – Free print your own: April 8th, 2014 High Quality Physical Deck […] read more

Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Scale 9 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Chordata, Pterosauria, Animalia

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!

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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
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Chordata, Pterosauria, Animalia

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.

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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
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Chordata, Pterosauria, Animalia

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.

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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

Ammonite

Ammonoidea subclass
Scale 7 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Animalia

EXTINCT | 3 POINTS

Play: MOVE of 2.
Despite their large shells that could grow up to 7 feet across, these predatory, squid-like shellfish were capable of swimming.

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Ammonites /ˈæmənaɪts/ are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the classCephalopoda. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e. octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The earliest ammonites appear during the Devonian, and the last species died […] read more

Meteorite Crash

Event Card
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Event

A meteorite has crashed, disrupting the entire ecosystem!
Play: on any level 1 or 2 SPECIES card.
Effect: Discard the SPECIES card and each card lower than it on its food chain.

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A meteorite is a solid piece of debris, from such sources as asteroids or comets, that originates in outer space and survives its impact with the Earth’s surface. It is called a meteoroid before its impact. A meteorite’s size can range from small to extremely large. When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, friction, pressure, and […] read more