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Re: Spinosaurs ate pterosaurs



In both cases, we don't know whether the pterosaur was attacked by the theropod (either on the ground or in mid-air) or the theropod was scavenging the carcass. The authors favor the latter explanation, and regard a capture of a live pterosaur by a spinosaur as "unlikely". I'm not sure this holds for troodontids, though. If small maniraptorans are thought to have leaped into the air against flying insects on the way to evolving flight, why not pterosaurs too?

OR, couldn't the pterosaur, from a family that is widely agreed to have generally had a diet consisting of fish, have been attacked while in the water?