For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs.
These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian …

The pterosaurs were a diverse group of Mesozoic flying reptiles that underwent a body plan
reorganization, adaptive radiation, and replacement of earlier forms midway through their …

Pterosaurs first appeared in the Late Triassic and persisted until the terminal Cretaceous:
they achieved a global distribution during the Mesozoic. Here, we attempt to provide the first …

Background The pterosaur record is generally poor, with little information about their
populations, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer, with only four isolated and flattened eggs …

The Azhdarchidae have come to be known as the most diverse clade of Late Cretaceous
pterosaurs and the largest flying creatures in existence. Since the erection of the taxon …

The largest known flying organisms are the azhdarchid pterosaurs, a pterodactyloid clade
previously diagnosed by the characters of their extremely elongate middle‐series cervical …

Pterosaurs, the earliest flying tetrapods, are the subject of some recent quantitative
macroevolutionary analyses from different perspectives. 1–2 Here, we use an integrative …

ABSTRACT A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur species, Sericipterus wucaiwanensis, gen.
et sp. nov., is described from the Upper Jurassic part of the Shishugou Formation in the …

Since 1950, diverse assemblages of Mesozoic vertebrates have been described from the
Galve area (Teruel Province, NE Spain). More than fifty taxa have been noted, including …

The Solnhofen pterosaurs Pterodactylus antiquus, Aerodactylus scolopaciceps,
Diopecephalus kochi, Germanodactylus cristatus and Germanodactylus rhamphastinus all …