A 230-million-year-old lagerpetid from Brazil is revealing the diversity of pterosaurs’ ancestors.
, a Darwinopteran pterosaur that hints at the evolutionary shift from lagerpetids to pterosaurs. Pterosaurs died out alongside the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction about 66 million years ago.’s slender claws were probably used for those familiar reasons for lagerpetids: to catch prey or climb. It confirms that at least some lagerpetid lineages lost quadrupedalism, or at least preferred to move on two legs.
Lagerpetids may yet yield more of their secrets, indicating how the enigmatic group of reptiles gave way to flying descendents, including the
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