Pterosauria

plural noun

Ptero·​sau·​ria

: an order of Archosauria comprising flying reptiles flourishing from the Jurassic to late Cretaceous times and including the pterodactyls and related forms

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pter- + -sauria

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