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.

Aeger elegans

Aeger elegans
Scale 4 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 1
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Animalia, Anthropoda, Malacostraca

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Aeger elegans is a species of shrimp that was found in the Solnhofen limestone of Germany.

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Aeger elegans is a species of fossil prawn from the Solnhofen Plattenkalk.[1] (From Wikipedia, February 2015) read more

Nymphaeales (Water Lily)

Nymphaeales order
Scale 8 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Nymphaeales

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Water lily fossils have been found from as early as the Cretaceous period.

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Nymphaeales is an order of flowering plants, consisting of three families of aquatic plants, the Hydatellaceae, the Cabombaceae, and the Nymphaeaceae (water lilies). It is one of the three orders of basal angiosperms, an early-diverging grade of flowering plants. At least 10 morphological characters unite the Nymphaeales.[2]Molecular synapomorphies are also known. The Plant List, created […] read more

Waterscorpion

Nepidae family
Scale 4 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Insecta, Anthropoda

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Waterscorpions are insects, but are not closely related to true scorpions.

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Nepidae is a family of exclusively aquatic Heteropteran insects in the order Hemiptera.[1] They are commonly called waterscorpions for their superficial resemblance to scorpions, which is due to their raptorial forelegs and the presence of a long slender process at the posterior end of the abdomen, resembling a tail. There are 14 genera in the […] read more

Aspidorhynchus

Aspidorhynchus
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Aspidorhynchiformes

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Aspidorhynchus was a speedy, two-foot long fish, with tooth-lined, elongated jaws.

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Aspidorhynchus (meaning “shield snout”) is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish from the Jurassic andCretaceous periods. Fossils have been found in Europe and Antarctica. Aspidorhynchus was a slender, fast-swimming fish, 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) long, with tooth-lined, elongated jaws. It also had heavy scales and a symmetrical tail. The upper jaw was longer than the lower […] read more

Obaichthys

Obaichthys
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Chordata, Actinopterygii

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Obaichthys is a primitive garfish, whose fossils have been found in Brazil.

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Cockroach

Blattodea order
Scale 4 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 2
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Animalia, Insecta, Anthropoda

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Cockroaches existed before pterosaurs and dinosaurs. The first fossils of modern cockroaches appeared in the Early Cretaceous period.

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Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattodea, sometimes called Blattaria, of which about 30 species out of 4,600[1]total are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests.[2][3] Among the best-known pest species are the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, which is about 30 mm (1.2 in) long; the German cockroach, Blattella germanica, about 15 mm […] read more