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Description
Anurognathus ammoni
Named by Ludwig Doderlein, 1923
Diet: Insectivore
Type: Pterodactyliform (Anurognathid) pterosaur
Size: 20 inch (50 centimeter) wingspan
Region: Europe (Germany)
Age: Late Jurassic (150.8 to 148.5 million BC; Early Tithonian)
Enemies: Ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs such as Compsognathus; larger pterosaurs
Episode: Time of the Titans
Info: Flying around the lagoon and one of the archipelago islands the ancient Tethys Sea in what is now the famous Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Bavaria, Germany, Anurognathus was a small pterosaur with a 20-inch wingspan and hunted and fed on insects on the wing by manoeuvrability, using its short, deep, blunt-nosed head and pin-like teeth ideal for catching insects. Its large eyes and the presence of sclerotic rings allowed some to believe that hunted by twilight or even night.

Note: Based on skeletal reconstruction by Mark P. Witton. Originally I was gonna update it to Mesadactylus which is present in the Morrison Formation, the setting of Time of the Titans whereas Anurognathus comes from Solnhofen Limestone, Germany, but decided to just do Anurognathus due to the very little info and images of Mesadactylus and I was having a hard time finding it (At least I included Mesadactylus in the Big Al Story)

Because of its appearance in Walking with Dinosaurs, this pterosaur is starting to become popular with usually exaggerating results, such as being the main antagonist in one episode of the ITV science-fiction series, Primeval.

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Description
Anurognathus ammoni
Named by Ludwig Doderlein, 1923
Diet: Insectivore
Type: Pterodactyliform (Anurognathid) pterosaur
Size: 20 inch (50 centimeter) wingspan
Region: Europe (Germany)
Age: Late Jurassic (150.8 to 148.5 million BC; Early Tithonian)
Enemies: Ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs such as Compsognathus; larger pterosaurs
Episode: Time of the Titans
Info: Flying around the lagoon and one of the archipelago islands the ancient Tethys Sea in what is now the famous Solnhofen Limestone Formation in Bavaria, Germany, Anurognathus was a small pterosaur with a 20-inch wingspan and hunted and fed on insects on the wing by manoeuvrability, using its short, deep, blunt-nosed head and pin-like teeth ideal for catching insects. Its large eyes and the presence of sclerotic rings allowed some to believe that hunted by twilight or even night.

Note: Based on skeletal reconstruction by Mark P. Witton. Originally I was gonna update it to Mesadactylus which is present in the Morrison Formation, the setting of Time of the Titans whereas Anurognathus comes from Solnhofen Limestone, Germany, but decided to just do Anurognathus due to the very little info and images of Mesadactylus and I was having a hard time finding it (At least I included Mesadactylus in the Big Al Story)

Because of its appearance in Walking with Dinosaurs, this pterosaur is starting to become popular with usually exaggerating results, such as being the main antagonist in one episode of the ITV science-fiction series, Primeval.

Requested by

Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC