An illustrated catalog of the first flying vertebrates
Pterosaurs ruled the skies for longer than birds or bats have existed. This guide assembles what we know about them, and what is yet to be discovered.
Before birds, before bats, there were pterosaurs. These archosaurs evolved powered flight in the Late Triassic and held the air nearly unchallenged for over a hundred and fifty million years. Some were sparrow-sized. Others had the wingspan of a small aircraft.
Pterosaurs: The Field Guide catalogues more than two hundred genera across twenty-one family-based chapters, with additional sections on anatomy, behavior, habitats, and evolutionary history. It’s fully illustrated with original artwork, phylogenetic trees, wingspan comparisons, and paleomaps.
- Genera
- 200+
- Chapters
- 21, family-based
- Coverage
- Anatomy · behavior · habitats · evolution
- Illustration
- Original artwork, phylogenetic trees, paleomaps
- Release
- 2026 · crowdfunding August 1
Three sample spreads
A look inside the 200+ entries. Click any page to enlarge.
Author & Editor
Editor and Technical Lead on Pterosaurs: The Field Guide, and Founder of 252MYA, Pteros and Paleostock.
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