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Pterosauria
Topic Started: Mar 15 2011, 06:01 PM (4,127 Views)
Jasonguppy
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I had this idea in the car of what if some aalien overlordic race took several pterosaur species and relocated them on another planet. These are the species that might work:
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Hatzegopteryx
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Dimorphodon
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Anhangueara
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Pterodaustro
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Nyctosaurus
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Tapejara
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Dsungaripterus
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Pteranodon
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Anurognathus

I have several ideas for creatures. Of course all normal non-tetrapods and amphibians that existed in the late cretaceous were also brought over.

Question: As Dimetrodon hips suggest it may have been the only pterosaur able to walk on it's hind legs (bipedally) could it evolve permanent bipedalism rather than just for short periods of time?
Edited by Jasonguppy, Mar 16 2011, 07:14 AM.
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Mar 22 2011, 03:04 PM
we dont have stomach of pteranodons o_o
We do know how big they were based on the body size, which is to say small.
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Hatzegopteryx could also fish for food and eat the other reptiles there.

And all of you, i don't care how they got there and what happens to them, i just want to speculate on what they would look like. For all that i care, the aliens put them on life support.
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The short beaks of Tapejara and Tupandactylus also look a lot like those of Oviraptorids which were omnivores, too.

Maybe you could even have a great diversity of them: Some have sharper beaks and eat more small animals than plants while others have a long weak beak for picking up fruits (like a toucan) and some have very short robust beaks for cracking open nuts (like a large parrot). Maybe the last group could also include some bone-crushing carnivores, though they would be overshadowed by the more robust Dsungaripterids.
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Rick Raptor
Mar 23 2011, 04:40 PM
The short beaks of Tapejara and Tupandactylus also look a lot like those of Oviraptorids which were omnivores, too.
Tapejarid and Oviraptorid beaks are as close as a tern's and a finch's. And we are still guessing what Oviraptorids were eating, it seams to vary massively by genus.
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Tapejarid beaks were omnivore beaks, and we have done studies onm them. I will now ignore FW and reply to rick:

YOur ideas would be perfect. Would you like to help out in this project?
So our main niches-
Aquatic-Nyctosaurs/Amphibians
Herbivores-Tupandactylus
Carnivores- Hatzegopteryx, Dsungdaripterids, Arboreal Tupandactylus
Aquatic Carnivores (Crocs)- Nyctosaurs, Amphibians
Aerial Predators- Dimorphodon
Piscivores- Anhanguera, Pteranodon
Filter feeders- Pteradaustro, Marine Nyctosaurs
Insectivores- Anurognathids

So these are the ancestors of what actually fill these niches. And an idea a had: Could there possibly be a swarm of predatory Anurognathids (Think Primeval) that acts like that?
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Actually I think dimorphodontids would make better arboreal predators. They were essencially pterosaurian marten, to the point they were almost flightless.
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yeah. Who should dominate aerially?
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