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Pteranodon longiceps
Named by Othniel Charles Marsh, 1876
Diet: Piscivore (Prey included mostly fish and other small marine animals of the Western Interior Seaway)
Type: Pterodactyloid (Pteranodontid) pterosaur
Size: 20 feet (6 meter) wingspan and 44 to 205 lb
Region: North America (Kansas, Alabama, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska USA)
Age: Late Cretaceous (86 to 84.5 million BC; Santonian)
Enemies: Large marine reptiles such as the mosasaur Tylosaurus and sharks such as Cretoxyrhina while hunting prey by foraging underwater, much like most of today's aquatic birds.
Episode: Sea Monsters - The Most Dangerous Seas (Note: While it did appear in Chased by Dinosaurs - Land of the Giants, I replaced that with another pterosaur due to be in the wrong age and area)
Info: Possibly the best-known of all pterosaurs and the classic 'pterodactyl' as it is often shown in most of the media associating with dinosaurs (despite that, like all pterosaurs, it is not a dinosaur at all, but a close relative) and with exaggerating results (depicting with bat-wings; given sharp teeth; having a long tail like a rhamphorhynchid; being a threat to small terrestrial prey; eating meat or plants; grabbing prey with its hindfeet; incorrectly living inland; being hairless; being oversized; living, resting, and nesting in trees ; walking bipedally instead of quadrupedally; various incorrect beak shapes; living alongside Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops despite that it died out millions of years before the two dinosaur species evolved; witnessing the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, despite that it died out millions of years before the event), Pteranodon flew over the Western Interior Seaway that covers what is now the Western Interior of North America around 85 million years ago during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous period with its magnificent 20-foot (6-meter) wingspan, hunting fish by foraging underwater, much like most of today's aquatic birds with its toothless beak (the name Pteranodon means "wing without teeth"). It is recognized for the large skull crest that was most likely used for mating display and its believed that from the fossil evidence, female Pteranodon were smaller than the males and had smaller, triangular head crests.

Note: Based on Mark Witton's skeletal work while coloration based on a gannet. Also I gave the males a bright red and black crest, which kinda resembles those of the Pteranodon from the ITV drama series, Primeval.

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Description

Pteranodon longiceps
Named by Othniel Charles Marsh, 1876
Diet: Piscivore (Prey included mostly fish and other small marine animals of the Western Interior Seaway)
Type: Pterodactyloid (Pteranodontid) pterosaur
Size: 20 feet (6 meter) wingspan and 44 to 205 lb
Region: North America (Kansas, Alabama, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Nebraska USA)
Age: Late Cretaceous (86 to 84.5 million BC; Santonian)
Enemies: Large marine reptiles such as the mosasaur Tylosaurus and sharks such as Cretoxyrhina while hunting prey by foraging underwater, much like most of today's aquatic birds.
Episode: Sea Monsters - The Most Dangerous Seas (Note: While it did appear in Chased by Dinosaurs - Land of the Giants, I replaced that with another pterosaur due to be in the wrong age and area)
Info: Possibly the best-known of all pterosaurs and the classic 'pterodactyl' as it is often shown in most of the media associating with dinosaurs (despite that, like all pterosaurs, it is not a dinosaur at all, but a close relative) and with exaggerating results (depicting with bat-wings; given sharp teeth; having a long tail like a rhamphorhynchid; being a threat to small terrestrial prey; eating meat or plants; grabbing prey with its hindfeet; incorrectly living inland; being hairless; being oversized; living, resting, and nesting in trees ; walking bipedally instead of quadrupedally; various incorrect beak shapes; living alongside Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops despite that it died out millions of years before the two dinosaur species evolved; witnessing the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, despite that it died out millions of years before the event), Pteranodon flew over the Western Interior Seaway that covers what is now the Western Interior of North America around 85 million years ago during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous period with its magnificent 20-foot (6-meter) wingspan, hunting fish by foraging underwater, much like most of today's aquatic birds with its toothless beak (the name Pteranodon means "wing without teeth"). It is recognized for the large skull crest that was most likely used for mating display and its believed that from the fossil evidence, female Pteranodon were smaller than the males and had smaller, triangular head crests.

Note: Based on Mark Witton's skeletal work while coloration based on a gannet. Also I gave the males a bright red and black crest, which kinda resembles those of the Pteranodon from the ITV drama series, Primeval.

Well its been a while hasn't it? I'm doing it

Requested by

Walking with Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters is owned by BBC and Impossible Picture