Sentences with phrase «pterosaur tracks»

Although most pterosaur tracks show the animals walking on all fours, the first prints in the newly discovered tracks are of the rear limbs only.

Not exact matches

While conducting paleontological research in northeastern Mexico, the scientists came upon sedimentary rock deposited toward the end of the Cretaceous Period that evidenced an enormous diversity of fossils, including the tracks of birds, dinosaurs and pterosaurs.

The results reveal that pterosaurs had a giant flocculus, a brain region responsible for keeping track of the body's location and for coordinating the movement of the eyes.

The other dinosaur tracks include: a sauropod, or long - necked plant - eater; small theropods, crow - sized carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to the Velociraptor and Tyrannosaurus rex; and pterosaurs, a group of flying reptiles that included pterodactyls.