100 million years ago the earth was a place in which many mysterious creatures,the planet was in the grip of giant reptiles.
Flying reptiles- pterosaurs.
Pterosaurs ruled the skies for 150 million years.
Scientific classification Kingdom:Animalia,Phylum:Chordata,Clade:Orn,thodira,Clade:Pterosauromorpha,Order:Pterosauria
Replica Geosternbergia sternbergi skeletons, female (left) and male (right).one of the largest pterosaur genera and had approximately 7.25 metres in wingspan.
Pterosaurs they were the first large animals to fly.pterosaurs are not classified as birds, and they are also not dinosaurs.they are an extinct group of flying reptiles that are more closely related to dinosaurs and birds than they are to any other living reptile.
Pterosaurs first appear about 225 million years ago, and became extinct about 65 million years ago.
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THERE ARE TWO BROAD CATEGORIES OF PTEROSAUR:EARLY PTEROSAURS TENDED TO HAVE LONG TAILS,SHORT HEADS AND SHORT LIMBS.
EUDIMORPHODON RANZII
LIVED 227-209 MILLION YEARS AGO
The skeleton of eudimorphodon
Eudimorphodon was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi in the town of Cene, Italy
Eudimorphodon was a small pterosaur, being 1 metre in length, and weighing no more than 10 kilograms.eudimorphodon had a wingspan of about 100 centimetres.
PREONDACTYLUS BUFFARINII
LIVED 220 MILLION YEARS AGO
skeletal restoration of preondactylus
Preondactylus had relatively long legs and short wings, whose total span was only 45 cm, Its diet either consisted of fish and insects.
DIMORPHODON MACRONYX
LIVED 200 MILLION YEARS AGO
The skeleton of dimorphodon
Dimorphodon had an adult body being 1 metre in length length, with a 1.45 metre wingspan and bulky skull approximately 23 cm in length.
the later pterosaurs tended to have very short tails,longer limbs when standing on the ground,and very large heads and necks.
ISTIODACTYLUS LATIDENS
LIVED 120 MILLION YEARS AGO
skull fragments of Istiodactylus specimen
Size compared to a human
Istiodactylus was quite a large it hadwingspan ranging from 4.3 to 5 metres long and the skull 56 cm long.
DSUNGARIPTERUS WEII
LIVED 130 MILLION YEARS AGO
Reconstructed skeleton
Dsungaripterus weii had a wing span of 3 to 3.5 metres, Its skull 40 to 50 cm long and its head and neck were together almost a meter long.
PTERANODON LONGICEPS
LIVED 85 MILLION YEARS AGO
Mounted replica of an adult male. longiceps skeleton.
Size of male (green) and female (orange) compared with a human
The male had a wingspan of about 5.6 metres.females are much smaller,approximately 3.8 metres in wingspan.
Bibliography:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur