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A shorthand term for all pterosaurs (the group of winged flying archosaurs that is the sister clade of the dinosaurs), including not only pterodactyls but also all the other pterosaur species that ever existed on Earth. I personally coined this term by analogy with how "dino" is used as a shorthand term for (non-avian) dinosaurs, and also to stop people from ever again calling pterosaurs in general "pterodactyls" even when they're not Pterodactylus antiquus (the only species that can unquestionably be called a pterodactyl).
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