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==== Pterosaurs ==== [[File:Rhamphorhynchus Lauer.jpg|thumb|Skeleton of ''[[Rhamphorhynchus|Rhamphorhynchus muensteri]]'' at [[Teylers Museum]], [[Haarlem]]|left]] [[Pterosaur]]s first appeared in the Late Triassic. A major radiation of Jurassic pterosaurs is the [[Rhamphorhynchidae]], which first appeared in the late Early Jurassic (Toarcian);<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=O’Sullivan|first1=Michael|last2=Martill|first2=David M.|date=2017-11-17|title=The taxonomy and systematics of Parapsicephalus purdoni (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from the Lower Jurassic Whitby Mudstone Formation, Whitby, U.K|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2017.1281919|journal=Historical Biology|language=en|volume=29|issue=8|pages=1009–1018|doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1281919|bibcode=2017HBio...29.1009O |s2cid=132532024|issn=0891-2963}}</ref> they are thought to been [[Piscivore|piscivorous]].<ref name="Bestwick-2018">{{Cite journal|last1=Bestwick|first1=Jordan|last2=Unwin|first2=David M.|last3=Butler|first3=Richard J.|last4=Henderson|first4=Donald M.|last5=Purnell|first5=Mark A.|date=November 2018|title=Pterosaur dietary hypotheses: a review of ideas and approaches: Pterosaur dietary hypotheses |journal=Biological Reviews|language=en|volume=93|issue=4|pages=2021–2048|doi=10.1111/brv.12431|pmc=6849529|pmid=29877021}}</ref> [[Anurognathidae|Anurognathids]], which first appeared in the Middle Jurassic, possessed short heads and densely furred bodies, and are thought to have been insectivores.<ref name="Bestwick-2018" /> Derived [[monofenestrata]]n pterosaurs such as [[Wukongopteridae|wukongopterids]] appeared in the late Middle Jurassic. Advanced short-tailed [[Pterodactyloidea|pterodactyloids]] first appeared at the Middle–Late Jurassic boundary. Jurassic pterodactyloids include the [[Ctenochasmatoidea|ctenochasmatids]], like ''[[Ctenochasma]]'', which have closely spaced needle-like teeth that were presumably used for [[Filter feeder|filter feeding]].<ref name="Bestwick-2018" /> The bizarre Late Jurassic [[Ctenochasmatoidea|ctenochasmatoid]] ''[[Cycnorhamphus]]'' had a jaw with teeth only at the tips, with bent jaws like those of living [[openbill stork]]s that may have been used to hold and crush hard invertebrates.<ref name="Bestwick-2018" />
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