EARLY JURASSIC EUROPE
LIAS
updated 110313
Lias
Dimorphodon medium-sized pterosaur. dating from the Hettangian-Sinemurian. It inhabited coastal regions so may have eaten fish ithough the teeth suggest insectsand it may have occasionally eaten small vertebrates and carrion as well.
Scliediosaurus lived during the Sinemurian to Pliensbachian. It was 13 ft long feeding on low scrubby plants. It was lightly armoured, protected by long horizontal rows of keeled oval scutes, that stretched along the neck, back and tail.
Rhamphorhynchus long-tailed pterosaur 4.1 ft long with a wingspan of 5.9 ft. It a short skull with large eyes, and the toothless beak-like tip of the jaw. it may have been nocturnal fish eater.