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a b Witton, Mark P.; Habib, Michael B.; Laudet, Vincent (2010). "On the size and flight diversity of giant pterosaurs, the use of birds as pterosaur analogues and comments on pterosaur flightlessness". PLOS ONE. 5 (11): e13982. Bibcode: 2010PLoSO...513982W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013982. PMC 2981443. PMID 21085624. The word ‘pterodactyl’ is often used to refer to all Pterosaurs. However, it should only really be used to refer to Pterodactyloids, and more specifically to Pterodactylus. It’s best to say ‘pterodactylus’! von Sömmerring, S. T. (1812). "Über einen Ornithocephalus oder über das unbekannten Thier der Vorwelt, dessen Fossiles Gerippe Collini im 5. Bande der Actorum Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae nebst einer Abbildung in natürlicher Grösse im Jahre 1784 beschrieb, und welches Gerippe sich gegenwärtig in der Naturalien-Sammlung der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München befindet: vorgelesen in der mathematisch-physikalischen Classe am 27. Dec. 1810 und Nachtrag vorgelesen am 8. April 1811". Denkschriften der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. München. 3: 89–158.

Fischer von Waldheim, Gotthelf (1813). Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata: in usum praelectionum mperalis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquenis edita. Vol.1. Mosquae [Moscow]: Typis Nicolai S. Vsevolozsky. p.466. Cope, E. D. (1872). "On two new Ornithosaurians from Kansas". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 12 (88): 420–422. JSTOR 981730. The earliest reassignments of pterosaur species to Pterodactylus started in 1825, with the description of Rhamphorhynchus; fossil collector Georg Graf zu Münster alerted the German paleontologist Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring about several distinct fossil specimens, Sömmerring thought that they belonged to an ancient bird. [49] Further fossil preparations had uncovered teeth, to which Graf zu Münster created a skull cast. He later sent the cast to Professor Georg August Goldfuss, who recognized it as a pterosaur, specifically a species of Pterodactylus. At the time however, most paleontologists incorrectly consider the genus Ornithocephalus ( lit. 'bird-head') to be the valid name for Pterodactylus, and therefore the specimen found was named as Ornithocephalus Münsteri, which was first mentioned by Graf zu Münster himself. [50] Another specimen was found and described by Graf zu Münster in 1839, he assigned this specimen to a new separate species called Ornithocephalus longicaudus; the specific name means 'long tail', in reference to the animal's tail size. [51] German paleontologist Hermann von Meyer in 1845 officially emended that the genus Pterodactylus had priority over Ornithocephalus, so he reassigned the species O. münsteri and O. longicaudus into Pterodactylus münsteri and Pterodactylus longicaudus. [52] In 1846, von Meyer created the new species Pterodactylus gemmingi based on long-tailed remains; the specific name honors the fossil collector Carl Eming von Gemming. [53] Later, in 1847, von Meyer finally erected the generic name Rhamphorhynchus ( lit. 'beak snout') due to the distinctively long tails seen in the specimens found, which are much longer than those seen in Pterodactylus. He assigned the species P. longicaudus as the type species of Rhamphorhynchus, which resulted in a new combination called Rhamphorhynchus longicaudus. [54] The species R. münsteri was later changed to R. muensteri by Lydekker in 1888, due to the ICZN rule that prohibits non-standard Latin characters, such as ü, in scientific names. [22] Holotype jaw fragments and teeth of Cimoliopterus, which was previously known as Pterodactylus cuvieri Designated as the type species of Pterodactylus, and replacing Ornithocephalus antiquus due to being an obsolete nameJacobsen, Annie (February 27, 2011). "When Flying Dinosaurs Were Drones". Los Angeles Times Magazine. Archived from the original on March 8, 2013 . Retrieved November 1, 2017. Pterosaurs Coming to London to Celebrate 350 Years of the Royal Society". Everything Dinosaur. June 22, 2010 . Retrieved August 20, 2020. von Meyer, Hermann (1847). Homoeosaurus maximiliani und Rhamphorhynchus (Pterodactylus) longicaudus: Zwei fossile Reptilien aus dem Kalkschiefer von Solenhofen (in German). Frankfurt: S. Schmerber'schen buchhandlung. The word pterodactyl is actually a catch-all term that is incorrectly used by most people to describe any prehistoric flying reptile; perhaps more importantly, pterodactyls are commonly called dinosaurs, which is undeniably false!

a b c d e Witton, Mark P.; Naish, Darren (2008). "A Reappraisal of azhdarchid pterosaur functional morphology and paleoecology". PLOS ONE. 3 (5): e2271. Bibcode: 2008PLoSO...3.2271W. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002271. PMC 2386974. PMID 18509539. a b Cuvier, G. (1819). "Pterodactylus longirostris". In Oken, Lorenz (ed.). Isis (oder Encyclopädische Zeitung) von Oken (in German). Jena: Expedition der Isis. pp. 1126, 1788. Pterosaurs and dinosaurs were part of a larger group of reptiles known as archosauria “ruling lizards,” which included crocodiles, birds, and dinosaurs and appeared in the early Triassic Period. Some pterosaurs have been found with hair, not mammal-like hair, not feathers, but a different type of hair covering the head and body, similar to bats. This suggests that pterosaurs were endothermic (“warm-blooded”).Pterodactyliods were themselves members of the larger group of flying reptiles known as Pterosaurs. (Pterosaur means ‘winged lizard’.) Pterodactylus or Pterodactyl? Paul, Gregory S. (2022). The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs. Princeton University Press. pp.161–162. doi: 10.1515/9780691232218. ISBN 9780691232218. S2CID 249332375. Oken, Lorenz (1816). Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Vol.3. Leipzig: August Schmid und Comp. pp.312–314. Evans, S.E. (1994). "The Solnhofen (Jurassic: Tithonian) lizard genus Bavarisaurus: new skull material and a reinterpretation". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 192: 37–52.