pterodactyloid

Scientists uncovered the first known landing tracks of one of these extinct flying reptiles at a site dubbed "Pterosaur Beach," in the fine-grained limestone deposits of an ancient lagoon in southwestern France dating back some 140 million years ago to the Late Jurassic. the pterosaur - a "pterodactyloid" with a wingspan roughly three feet wide (one meter) - flapped to stall its flight during landing, and then planted both its two-inch-long feet (five cm) simultaneously at a high angle.

Livescience.com 2009

There are two main baramins of pterosaurs: rhamphorhynchoid and pterodactyloid.

WTF??? – Heuristic 2009

The "skeleton" is of a pterodactyloid, something like Pteranodon or Anhanguera, in dorsal view.

Life's Time Capsule: Pterosaur Gallery Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009

Rodrigues, T., & Kellner, A.W.A. Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus. p210-228.

Archive 2009-01-01 ReBecca Foster 2009

BTW, a few quadrupedal pterodactyloid trackways - assuming they exist - don't DISPROVE bipedality - especially with creatures as light as pterosaurs.

Life's Time Capsule: Questions about Pterosaurs #1 Peter Bond 2009

Rodrigues, T., & Kellner, A.W.A. Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus. p210-228.

Flugsaurier: Pterosaur papers in honour of Peter Wellnhofer ReBecca Foster 2009

The footprints suggest the pterosaur — a “pterodactyloid” with a wingspan roughly three feet wide (one meter) — flapped to stall its flight during landing, and then planted both its two-inch-long feet (five cm) simultaneously at a high angle.

Prehistoric landing tracks | clusterflock 2009

Lü J, Unwin DM, Jin X, Liu Y, Ji Q 2009 Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull.

Darwinopterus and mosaic, modular evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2009

The "skeleton" is of a pterodactyloid, something like Pteranodon or Anhanguera, in dorsal view.

Archive 2009-07-01 Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009

It now seems that nearly all of the characters proposed initially to distinguish Tupuxuara from other pterodactyloid pterosaurs are problematic in not being unique to the genus, but in fact Tupuxuara is clearly diagnosable, being unique in having a sort of deep premaxillary crest in which the dorsal margin extends subparallel to the dorsal margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra (Martill & Naish 2006, p. 931).

Those sexy tupuxuarids Darren Naish 2006