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In an alternate timeline, having a POD from our timeline sometime in the middle Triassic, pterosauromorphs have taken a new form as they become fliers. Instead of taking the typical pterosaur wing morphology of our timeline, their wings develop into forms reminiscent to that of bats and mythological dragons or wyverns. The wing is composed by super elongated first, second and third digits that support a large membranous wing. The fourth and fifth digit are held on the ground when walking quadrupedally. They have since diversified just like pterosaurs did in our timeline, throughout the Mesozoic. Here we observe a primitive Middle Jurassic derived member of the Dracornithes, the name of this peculiar clade. In the forests of China, this pair of Ruberdactylus punctatus hunt in the canopies for small insects, like this stem-hymenopteran. On the canopies, other animals coexist alongside these, like this rhyncocephalian-like lepidosauromorph and this derived cynodont, which has convergently evolved, at some degree, to mammaliamorphs. Future species will eventually develop more advanced shapes to cope with better flight methods.

Description
In an alternate timeline, having a POD from our timeline sometime in the middle Triassic, pterosauromorphs have taken a new form as they become fliers. Instead of taking the typical pterosaur wing morphology of our timeline, their wings develop into forms reminiscent to that of bats and mythological dragons or wyverns. The wing is composed by super elongated first, second and third digits that support a large membranous wing. The fourth and fifth digit are held on the ground when walking quadrupedally. They have since diversified just like pterosaurs did in our timeline, throughout the Mesozoic. Here we observe a primitive Middle Jurassic derived member of the Dracornithes, the name of this peculiar clade. In the forests of China, this pair of Ruberdactylus punctatus hunt in the canopies for small insects, like this stem-hymenopteran. On the canopies, other animals coexist alongside these, like this rhyncocephalian-like lepidosauromorph and this derived cynodont, which has convergently evolved, at some degree, to mammaliamorphs. Future species will eventually develop more advanced shapes to cope with better flight methods.