- ornithocheiroids,
istiodactylids bear
physiologies suited to a
terrestrial life and many of
their fossils have been
found in freshwater-deposits.
Istiodactylids are...
- in 1974, but the
details of
istiodactylid flight performance have not been studied.
Witton suggested that
istiodactylids would have been
powerful fliers...
- to the
istiodactylids than to any
other group of pterosaurs; however, they
considered it to be more
primitive than the
Cretaceous istiodactylids and regarded...
-
which were
flattened from
mouth side to "lip" side, like
those of
other istiodactylids. The
pterygoid bone had a
ridge at the underside,
pointing obliquely...
- used its beak to feel for fish or
invertebrates in
shallow water. The
istiodactylids were
likely primarily scavengers.
Archaeopterodactyloidea obtained food...
-
other istiodactyliforms. A
cingulum is also
known from the
teeth of
istiodactylids and
related pterosaurs, but
these have wide crowns,
which are also compressed...
- odontoid, on the end of the maxilla; such a
process is also seen in the
istiodactylids Longchengpterus and Istiodactylus. In 2022, Chang-Fu Zhou and colleagues...
- of
another istiodactylid from the same ecosystem, Liaoxipterus. However, a 2012
analysis by Mark
Witton found that
these two
istiodactylids were not identical...
-
agreements that
these animals were related, and
therefore similar to
istiodactylids and pteranodontians,
there is
still no
virtual consensus over the exact...
-
Within Pteranodontoidea, the
dentition also
precluded a
pteranodontid or
istiodactylid identity. It was
therefore concluded a
position within Anhangueria was...
