Ornithocheiroids

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Ornithocheiroids are a group of pterodactyloid pterosaurs that are commonly portrayed living near water and eating fish. They were among the last of pterosaurs to possess teeth.

They may or may not have been around in the latest Cretaceous time period.

Physical traits

Ornithocheiroids have limbs specialized for an amphibious lifestyle, whether fresh, salt or brackish water. In some cases, like Pteranodon, they can swim for food, while others probably waded in water, like modern herons do.

Unlike the Azhdarcids, the limbs of ornithocheiroids are not suited for terrestrial life, some ornithocheiroids couldn't even walk.

in the series

Walking With Dinosaurs

Giant of the Skies

Ornithocheirus was a migrating Ornithocheiroid that was the main character in this episode.

Chased by Dinosaurs

Land of Giants

Ornithocheirus made a cameo appearance in this episode. There is also several Pteranodon in the episode.

Sea Monsters

Sea Monsters, Episode 3

A Pteranodon befriends Nigel Marven and his crew in the last half of this episode.

Nigel's Pteranodon. (Sea Monsters)

Walking With Dinosaurs: Inside Their World

Pteranodon is one of the viewable pterosaurs in the app.

Appearances in other Media

Prehistoric Park

Nyctosaurus was an Ornithocheiriod, first appearing in the opening sequence, and in a cameo in the first episode(although they weren't identified).

They returned in the last episode, which, strangely, took place 2million years earlier in their environment than in the first episode. Nigel Marvin flew alongside a flock in an airplane once. one was also caught and eaten by a Deinosuchusright out of the air.

Trivia

Ornithocheirus has been reclassified as Tropeognathus, but both genus are Ornithocheiroids.