pterosaurus

Example Sentences

• "The pterosauri flew from tree to tree, spreading out the flying membrane that stretched from their enormously long fifth finger to the legs, and even to the tail."
• "Now, according to the geological successions, we have, first of all, the invertebrates (Protozoic Epoch—Cambrian Period), then the vertebrates, and these in the following order: first, the Cyclostomes (Silurian), then the cartilaginous fish (Devonian), then the stegocephalian amphibians (Carboniferous) , followed by the reptiles, whose apogee is reached in the Secondary, or Mesozoic, Age with the ichthyosauri, the stegosauri and the pterosauri: […]"
• "We’re interested in the last, the Cainozoic era. This is the era that really concerns us. This was the time when the pterodactyls and pterosauri flew south."
• "Or, while marvelling at the ingenuity of Nature, one can sing incantations that cause the clouds to assume fantastic shapes: dinosaurs, glyptodons and pterosauruses frolic across the sky."
• "Pterosauruses are giant birds that lived during prehistoric times. In a book called Dinosaurs in Your Backyard, author William Mannetti tries to prove why the Pteranodon is the most interesting kind of pterosaurus."
• "The muscles that pterosauruses used to fly were not as developed as those that birds use today."