Pterosaur

Pterosaurs; Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Replica Geosternbergia sternbergi skelets, female (left) an male (richt)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Ornithodira
Clade:	†Pterosauromorpha; Padian, 1997
Order:	†Pterosauria; Kaup, 1834
Subgroups
	†Faxinalipterus?; †Eopterosauria; †Macronychoptera †Dimorphodontia; †Novialoidea; ;
	Distribution o pterosaur fossil locations. Coloured speshies or genera names correspond tae thair taxonomic group.

Pterosaurs (frae the Greek πτερόσαυρος, pterosauros, meanin "weenged lizard") wur flyin reptiles o the clade or order Pterosauria.

Notes

↑ Adaptit frae Witton (2013).^[2] Taxonomic groups based on Unwin et al. (2010).^[3]

↑ Andres, B.; Clark, J.; Xu, X. (2014). "The Earliest Pterodactyloid and the Origin of the Group". Current Biology. 24 (9): 1011–6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.030. PMID 24768054.
↑ Mark P. Witton (2013), Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-15061-1
↑ David M. Unwin (2010), "Darwinopterus and its implications for pterosaur phylogeny", Acta Geoscientica Sinica, 31 (1): 68–69

Pterosaurs Temporal range: Late Triassic–Late Cretaceous, 228–66 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N

Replica Geosternbergia sternbergi skelets, female (left) an male (richt)
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Ornithodira
Clade:	†Pterosauromorpha Padian, 1997
Order:	†Pterosauria Kaup, 1834
Subgroups^[1]
†Faxinalipterus? †Eopterosauria †Macronychoptera †Dimorphodontia †Novialoidea

Distribution o pterosaur fossil locations. Coloured speshies or genera names correspond tae thair taxonomic group.^[a]