Pterodactylus Skeleton, Extinct Flying Reptile

Pterodactylus ('winged finger') is a genus of pterosaurs, whose members are popularly known as pterodactyls. It was the first to be named and identified as a flying reptile. Pterodactyls are any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth, birdlike beak and and a wingspan of 3.3 ft or less. Pterosaurs ('winged lizard') were flying reptiles of the order Pterosauria. Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight

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Chordate Earliest Evolved Extinction Horology Lizard Paleobiology Pre-1920s Prehistory Pterodactyls Pterodactylus Pterosauria Pterosaurs Terrestrial Vertebrates Winged

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