Quick Facts
Diet: Fish, scavenged dead animals and ate insects inland
Size: Ranged from that of a sparrow to that of the huge Quetzalcoatlus, the largest fossils of which have a wingspread of more than 40 ft, and fossilized tracks suggest that some pterosaurs may have had 60 ft wingspans
Pterosaur
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- Means “winged lizard”
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- Extinct flying reptile (commonly called pterodactyl)
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- Lived during the late Triassic and Cretaceous periods, from approximately 228 to 65 million years ago
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- At least 60 genera of pterosaurs have been found
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- Relative of the dinosaur – but were not dinosaurs themselves
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- Lived close to the sea shores
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- Lived in some parts of America, Guam, China, Japan, England, Germany, France, Tanzania (in Africa) and many other places too