Definition of Pterasauria
||Pter`o*sau"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL.]
(Paleon.) An extinct order of flying reptiles of the
Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli,
and Ornithosauria.
&fist; The wings were formed, like those of bats, by a leathery
expansion of the skin, principally supported by the greatly enlarged
outer or " little" fingers of the hands. The American Cretaceous
pterodactyls had no teeth. See Pteranodontia, and
Pterodactyl.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Translingual
- a taxonomic order, within superorder Archosauromorpha - the pterosaurs
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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