Guidraco venator eating a Cokotherium jiufotangensis. By thaasviyn

(No, despiste the timing this isn’t an April’s fools, I just decided to post it as soon as I got the commission.)

Ornithocheirid/anhanguerid/toothed pteranodontian/whatever pterosaurs are usually depicted as piscivores. However, some dietary studies show that some taxa (namely, Coloborhynchus in that study) had diets composing of terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates. This makes sense, as several of these toothed pterosaurs lived inland, like Guidraco here. A friend of mine coined the term “crocodile hawks” for how these pterosaurs should be invisoned.

Another study also found that these pterosaurs were arboreal (though the derived pteranodontids weren’t). Thus, it seems some of these pterosaurs lived like modern birds of prey, hunting inland animals and resting on trees.