How to use in-sentence of “pterosaurs”:
– Only small parts of 15 different pterosaurs have been found in Australia.
– Gradually, larger versions evolved, and by the Upper Cretaceous most pterosaurs had huge wing-spans and clearly covered huge distances soaring on upcurrents in a warm environment.
– Georges Cuvier first suggested that pterosaurs were flying creatures in 1801.
– The ancestors of crocodiles, and the ancestors of pterosaurs and dinosaurs, were the most important archosaurs of this epoch.
– This suggests that in this ecosystem pterosaurs were more common and diversified than birds.
Example sentences of “pterosaurs”:
– English palaeontologists showed that pterosaurs could fly, Hankin E.H.
– How pterosaurs moved on the ground has been something of a mystery.
– Many pterosaurs were fairly small, but in the Upper Cretaceous some grew larger than any other flying animals.
– The pterosaurs of the Niobrara chalk.
– It was one of six new Maastriichtian-aged pterosaurs described in 2018.
– It coexisted with the pterosaurs “Alcione elainusAlcione”, “Simurghia”, “Tethydraco” and “Phospatodraco” and the dinosaur “Chenanisaurus”.
– Later birds and pterosaurs had extra ‘control wiring’ in their brains, but early ones did not.
– An unsolved puzzle is the flexibility of the tail, which lacks the very long stiffening vertebral extensions other long-tailed pterosaurs have.
– The larger pterosaurs were mainly soarers, as is the case with birds today.
– In the Solnhofen limestone where “Archaeopteryx” was found, there are more examples of pterosaurs of several genera than there are of the proto-bird.
– Two of these pterosaurs are yet to be named.
– Like the eggs of later pterosaurs and modern reptiles, In modern birds, the eggshell is hardened with calcium carbonate, completely shielding the embryo from the outside environment.
– Mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and many species of plants and invertebrates also became extinct.
– The pterosaurs seem to have gone extinct in this event.
– The Pterosaurs of the Niobrara Chalk.
- English palaeontologists showed that pterosaurs could fly, Hankin E.H.
- How pterosaurs moved on the ground has been something of a mystery.