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Flying Organisms




These are pterasaurs, Pterodactylus kochi , Wagner, they were dinosaurs that took to the skies. They were soaring and swooping lizards with wingspans of around 1 m, small in comparason to the Pterasaurs of the Cretaceous where often their wingspans reached up to 15 m.

(modified from Walker et al. 1992)

(modified from Page et al., 1989)