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Definition of Pterosaur

1. Noun. An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb.

Definition of Pterosaur

1. n. A pterodactyl.

Definition of Pterosaur

1. Noun. any of several extinct flying reptiles, of the order ''Pterosauria'', including the pterodactyls ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pterosaur

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pterosaur

Literary usage of Pterosaur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"This pterosaur could probably walk on all fours or on its hind legs alone. When standing on its hind legs, it was less than two feet FIG. 5i9. ..."

2. A Monograph of the Fossil Reptilia of the Liassic Formations by Richard Owen, Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"The bone which, in the Bird, as in the pterosaur, forms part of the ... 1) be called mastoid or squamosal, it is Reptilian, not Avian, in the pterosaur. ..."

3. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"13,, and d, c, have justified the refusal to regard the articular end of the bone of the large Cretaceous pterosaur as part of the humerus. ..."

4. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"The bone which, in the Bird, as in the pterosaur, forms part of the ... 1) be called mastoid or squamosal, it is Reptilian, not Avian, in the pterosaur. ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Fully differentiated as first found, the pterosaur* underwent no radical cinu'p- ... The ancestors of the pterosaur* and the birds may doubtless have been ..."

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