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Pterodactylus (from Ancient Greek: πτεροδάκτυλος, romanized: pterodáktylos ' winged finger ' [2]) is a genus of extinct pterosaurs.It is thought to contain only a single species, Pterodactylus antiquus, which was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile and one of the first prehistoric reptiles to ever be discovered.
Barnum Brown, in 1904, reported plesiosaur stomach contents containing "pterodactyl" bones, most likely from Pteranodon. [45] Fossils from terrestrial dinosaurs also have been found in the Niobrara Chalk, suggesting that animals who died on shore must have been washed out to sea (one specimen of a hadrosaur appears to have been scavenged by a ...
In 2024, Frederik Spindler described Propterodactylus frankerlae as a new genus and species of monofenestratan pterosaur based on these fossil remains. The generic name , Propterodactylus , combines the Ancient Greek suffix " προ- " ("pro-"), meaning "before", with the genus name Pterodactylus (derived from Greek words meaning "wing digit").
In 2022, a new fossil of Tupandactylus cf. imperator [87] was found to have melanosomes in forms that signal an earlier-than-anticipated development of patterns found in extant feathers. The new specimen suggested that pterosaur integumentary melanosomes exhibited a more complex organization than those previously known from other pterosaurs.
Using the technique on 150-million-year-old fossils of a pterosaur known as Rhamphorhynchus, they found the delicate membrane of the reptile’s tail vane and its internal structures “visibly ...
Previously, a fossil jaw recovered from the Middle Jurassic Stonesfield Slate formation in the United Kingdom, was considered the oldest known. This specimen supposedly represented a member of the family Ctenochasmatidae , [ 5 ] though further examination suggested it belonged to a teleosaurid stem-crocodilian instead of a pterosaur. [ 4 ]
Life restoration of the first scientifically studied pterosaur, Pterodactylus This timeline of pterosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, and taxonomic revisions of pterosaurs, the famed flying reptiles of the Mesozoic era.
In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...