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from The Century Dictionary.
- The pterodactyls as a group of extinct flying-dragons, typified by the genus Pterodactylus: same as
Pterosauria .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Paleon.) Same as
pterosauria .
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There is nothing, then, in known facts which can support the opinion that the new genera discovered among fossils -- the palæotheria, anoplotheria, megalonyces, mastodontes, pterodactyli, ichthyosauri, etc. -- could have been the sources of any animals now existing, which would differ only by the influence of time or climate.
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