Pterosaurs: From Deep TimeAn epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller's Wife London, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty rails against the position of women in Victorian society. Forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, she yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. But hidden in the attic of popular author - and noted scientific speculator - H.G. Wells is a machine that will change everything. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem - to escape it, to change it, might offer them the hope they need... |
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... Late Cretaceous pterosaur fossil record is rather poor , so exact details of this , when and how it happened , are still unknown . Several clans — anurognathids , scaphognathines , dsungaripterids , gna- thosaurines and ctenochasmatines ...
... Late Cretaceous , at least two ptero- saur clans survived . Initially , the most important of these were the pteran- odontians , toothless ornithocheiroids that evolved into two quite different forms — Pteranodon and Nyctosaurus . With ...
... Late Cretaceous appears to belong to an azhdarchid . Pteranodontians practically disappear from the fossil record just beyond the mid - Late Cretaceous , and , after that , it is azhdarchids all the way , the only exception being the ...