Re: Large last gasp of pterosaurs

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's interesting that today's two large clades of flying animals 
> (_Neornithes_
> and _Chiroptera_) largely avoid competition by being awake at different 
> times.
> Then again, it doesn't seem that pterosaurs or early avialans had any 
> nocturnal adaptations....

There was a fairly recent suggestion that anurognathids might have been 
nocturnal insect-catchers, on account of their big eyes and wide mouths.  
AFAIK, the notion that anurognathids caught flying insects on the wing is 
not new, but the suggestion that they did so at night is.

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