Pterosaurs: Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs

by André J. Veldmeijer, Mark Witton, Ilja Nieuwland

Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a span of some 135 million years. When they became extinct, no relatives survived them and as a result these prehistoric animals cannot readily be compared with our modern-day fauna. So what do we know of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9088900930
• ISBN13: 9789088900938
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.0"