Pterosaurs that did have a piscivorous diet are usually imagined as hunting by skim fishing.‭ ‬This is where the pterosaur would fly so close to the water that when it opened its jaws at least the lower jaw dipped beneath the surface of the water.‭ ‬When the jaw hit a fish the … Holy shit the picture had me thinking it was like 8 feet tall or something. Although Quetzalcoatlus was toothless, specimens of earlier Pterosaurs, such as the Pterodaustro, had nearly a thousand needle-like teeth in their colossal bill! Despite being able to fly and having a top wingspan of 8-9 feet, Pterodaustro was not a bird.

Probably filtered water through them and fed plankton like today’s flamingos. Pterosaurs (/ ˈ t ɛr ə s ɔːr, ˈ t ɛr oʊ-/; from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") were flying reptiles of the extinct clade or order Pterosauria.They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago).Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. Pterosaurs with sharp, narrow beaks most likely subsisted on fish, while anomalous genera like Pterodaustro fed on plankton (this pterosaur's thousand or so tiny teeth formed a filter, like that of a blue whale) and the fanged Jeholopterus may have sucked dinosaur blood like a vampire bat (though most paleontologists dismiss this notion). Depending on the beak and how the land was like where they lived is how paleontologists find out how pterodactyls ate. It probably would have had to eat over 120 pounds, maybe even as much as 200 pounds, of plant material a day to just survive. Members. Holy shit the picture had me thinking it was like 8 feet tall or something. Pterodaustro sciifii (name meaning "SciiFii's Pterodaustro") is a bizarre species of medium-sized pterosaur that originally lived in Early Cretaceous Brazil and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii. Pterodaustro is, in my opinion, one of the absolute weirdest pterosaurs out there, so it’s good we’re doing it on Halloween. People like to generalize the pterosaurs as a group. In real life, Pterodaustro is a quadruped and it was not green, but it was pink colored due to eating crustaceans just with flamingos. What I’m trying to get at is that different species got food in different ways. Brontotherium probably lived on a variety of different plants that were endemic to North America at that time. Scientists think they waded in shallow water - like flamingos do today. Who ate them? One very unusual pterosaur from South America, Pterodaustro, had very long and extremely thin teeth that served as a trap for fish. 3 Pterodactylus Antiquus It was a pterosaur, which is a flying reptile, making it a distant cousin of the Pteranodon. Introduction.