Pteranodon is a species of pterosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, between 88-81 million years ago. It has appeared in several Disney films, most notably the 1940 animated feature Fantasia and the 2000 animated feature Dinosaur. Although not a dinosaur itself, it is often shown in association with them.
Pteranodon (meaning "toothless wing") is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over 6 meters (20 feet). They lived during the late Cretaceous geological period of North America in present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alabama. More fossil specimens of Pteranodon have been found than any other pterosaur, with about 1,200 specimens known to science, many of them well preserved with nearly complete skulls and articulated skeletons. It was an important part of the animal community in the Western Interior Seaway.
Pteranodon is the most famous pterosaur, frequently featured in dinosaur media and strongly associated with dinosaurs by the general public. While not dinosaurs, pterosaurs, such as Pteranodon, form a clade closely related to dinosaurs, as both fall within the clade Avemetatarsalia.
A bunch of Pteranodon appear in The Rite of Spring segment. They are seen flying overhead trying to catch prey in the ocean. Two of them were fighting over a squid, and one, with a fish in its beak, got dragged into the water by a Tylosaurus, causing it to drown. They are never seen again for the remainder of the segment, but presumably went extinct in the mass extinction with the dinosaurs.
One Pteranodon is seen picking up Aladar's egg from the water in its beak and flying towards Lemur Island to feed its children, only to get stopped by two birds, causing it to drop the egg into the island. The species shown in this movie is Pteranodon sternbergi, which some scientists think is a different creature called a Geosternbergia, a close relative of the Pteranodon.
In the episode "Land Before Swine", a Pterodactyl is present.
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In the episode "Dino World", a Pteranodon appears alongside an Ankylosaurus. They are discovered to exist on another planet among many other Earth dinosaurs. At the episode's climax, three Pteranodon chase the Callistos away after Loretta wakes up the Ankylosaurus.
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Pterosaurs, like the Pteranodon and Pterodactyl, are technically not dinosaurs, but belong to a separate group of flying reptiles.
In the game Disney's Dinosaur, the Pteranodon is named Flia.
Fantasia 2000:Symphony No. 5 • Pines of Rome • Rhapsody in Blue • Piano Concerto No. 2 • The Carnival of the Animals • Pomp and Circumstance • The Firebird Suite
Deleted:The Fool • Plastic Spaceman Miscellaneous:Midway Mania • Hot Potato • My Unexpected Friend
See Also
A113 • Black Friday reel • Toy Story (Original Treatment) • Toy Story 3 (Circle 7 Screenplay) • The Science Behind Pixar • Pixar in a Box • Astro Blasters Robots • Star Command
Dinosaur • Disney's DinosaurDisney's Wonderful World of Reading • Dinosaur Activity Center • Dinosaur Song Factory • Dinosaur: The Essential Guide • Video
The Mighty Ducks • D2: The Mighty Ducks • D3: The Mighty Ducks • Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series • The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers • (Episode List) • (Theme Song)
Characters
Movie Characters:Gordon Bombay • Hans • Wolf Stansston • Ted Orion • Charlie Conway • Fulton Reed • Greg Goldberg • Lester Averman • Jesse Hall • Terry Hall • Peter Mark • Dave Karp • Guy Germaine • Connie Moreau • Tommy Duncan • Tammy Duncan • Adam Banks • Julie Gaffney • Dean Portman • Dwayne Robertson • Russ Tyler • Luis Mendoza • Ken Wu • Gerald Ducksworth • Coach Jack Reilly
Mighty Duck Characters:Wildwing Flashblade • Nosedive Flashblade • Duke L'Orange • Tanya Vanderflock • Mallory McMallard • Check "Grin" Hardwing • Canard Thunderbeak • Phil Palmfeather • Captain Klegghorn • Thrash & Mookie • Bernie "Buzz" Blitzman • Borg • Prince V'Lara • B.R.A.W.N. • Tai Quack Do • Lord Dragaunus • Siege • Chameleon • Wraith • Hunter Drones • Dr. Droid • Asteroth • Falcone • Lucretia DeCoy • Dr. Swindle • Big Daddy-O Cool • Dr. Wally Pretorious • Phineas P. Viper • Baron Von Licktenstamp • Alvin Yasbeck • Stanley Strazinski • Gargon
Musical:Who Better than Me • No Other Way • I Need to Know • Sure as Sun Turns to Moon • Waiting for this Moment • Different • Like No Man I've Ever Seen • For the First Time • Everything that I Am
Locations
Africa • Jungle • Pellucidar • Dark Mountain • Skull Cave
Dipper Pines • Mabel Pines • Grunkle Stan • Ford Pines • Soos Ramirez • Wendy Corduroy • Waddles • Bill Cipher • Sheriff Blubs • Deputy Durland • Manly Dan • Old Man McGucket • Tate McGucket • Gideon Gleeful • Robbie Valentino • Preston Northwest • Priscilla Northwest • Pacifica Northwest • Ergman Bratsman • Blendin Blandin • Bud Gleeful • Lazy Susan • Mr. Poolcheck • Paper Jam Dipper • Rumble McSkirmish • Summerween Trickster • Toby Determined • Shandra Jimenez • Tyrone • Tyler Cutebiker • Dipper Clones • Tambry • Candy Chiu • Grenda • Melody • Mayor Befufftlefumpter • Thompson • Nate • Lee • Gabe Bensen • Gnomes • Gompers • Lilliputtians • Sergei • Pa and Ma Duskerton • Manotaurs • Gobblewonker • Xyler and Craz • Wax figures • Multi-Bear • Quentin Trembley • Cheekums • Mermando • Aoshima • Pterodactyl • Abuelita • Mrs. Gleeful • The Undead • Shape Shifter • Agent Powers • Agent Trigger • .GIFfany • Sprott • Lolph and Dundgren • Time Baby • Greg and Janice Valentino • Love God • Marius von Fundshauser • Ghost of Northwest Manor • Blind Ivan • Justin Kerprank • Probabilitor the Annoying • Celestabellebethabelle • Darlene
Episodes
Season One:Tourist Trapped • The Legend of the Gobblewonker • Headhunters • The Hand That Rocks the Mabel • The Inconveniencing • Dipper vs. Manliness • Double Dipper • Irrational Treasure • The Time Traveler's Pig • Fight Fighters • Little Dipper • Summerween • Boss Mabel • Bottomless Pit! • The Deep End • Carpet Diem • Boyz Crazy • Land Before Swine • Dreamscaperers • Gideon Rises
Season Two:Scary-oke • Into the Bunker • The Golf War • Sock Opera • Soos and the Real Girl • Little Gift Shop of Horrors • Society of the Blind Eye • Blendin's Game • The Love God • Northwest Mansion Mystery • Not What He Seems • A Tale of Two Stans • Dungeons, Dungeons, & More Dungeons • The Stanchurian Candidate • The Last Mabelcorn • Roadside Attraction • Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future • Weirdmageddon
Locations
The Mystery Shack • Tent of Telepathy • Underground laboratory • Gravity Falls • Gravity Falls Forest • Northwest Manor • Lake Gravity Falls • Gravity Falls Pool • Gravity Falls Cemetery • Dusk 2 Dawn • Summerween Superstore • Scuttlebutt Island • Mystery Mountain • Fearamid
Objects
Journal 1 • Journal 2 • Journal 3 • Smile Dip • Pitt Cola • Height-altering crystals • Crystal Flashlight • Cloning Copy Machine • Cackling Skulls • Jack O' Melons • Soos' pick-up truck • Wax Stan • Stanmobile • Electron Carpet • Tape Measure Time Machine • Memory Gun • Mystic Amulet • Universe Portal • Grappling hook • The Author's Laptop • Nathaniel Northwest's Statue • Infinity-sided Dice • Time Cuffs • Shacktron
Songs
Gravity Falls Title Theme • Disco Girl • Li'l Ol' Me • The Lamby Lamby Dance • Homework's Wack • Mabel's the Boss Now • Stan Wrong Song • Don't Start Un-Believing • Training Mix • Mabel Girl • Taking Over Midnight • We'll Meet Again • It's Gonna Get Weird
Miles from Tomorrowland • Miles from Tomorrowland: Missions • Miles from Tomorrowland: Mars Rover Rescue • Disney Junior DJ Shuffle 2
Characters
Miles Callisto • Loretta Callisto • Phoebe Callisto • Leo Callisto • M.E.R.C. • Captain Joe • Gadfly Garnett • Professor Rubicon • Lysander Floovox • Frida Liang • Pollock • Eva • Admirals Watson and Crick • Haruna Kitumba • Blodger Blopp • Pipp Wimpley • Wimm and Kree Wimpley • Gong Gong and Po Po • Queen Gemma • Prince Rygan • Skellig Ro • Bootjet Groovestar • Mirandos • The GameMaster • Dr. Consilium • Dr. Zephyr Skye • Sheldon • Vincent Callisto • Robo-Penguins • Bowtie • Miss Baker • Commander Copernicus • Aggro • Silas
Episodes
Season One: "Runaway Shuttle/Surfin' the Whirlpool" • "Ocean in Motion/Explorer Exchange" • "Game On/How I Saved My Summer Vacation" • "Journey to the Frozen Planet/Attack of the Flickorax" • "Catch That IOTA!/Mighty Merc" • "Who Stole the Stellosphere?/Rock N' Roll" • "Happy Captain's Day/Planet of the Plants" • "Ride of the Quarkons/Downsized" • "To the Goldilocks Zone/Hiccup in the Plan" • "On Spaceguard/Spaceship Invader" • "The Great Blastboard Chase/Adventures in Robot-Pet Sitting" • "Unplugged/Junked" • "Mama Merc/Space Race" • "The Neptune Adventure/Eye to Eye" • "Yuri's Night/I, Stella" • "Frozen Food/Later, Multivator" • "Lunar New Year/The Hoverbike Diaries" • "The Search for Skellig Ro/Endangered Species" • "Blasteroid!/Magnetic Merc" • "A Growing Problem/The Tardigrade Escapade" • "Miles vs. The Volcano/Scavengers of Mars" • "Unexpected Ally/Skyrise" • "Ghost Moon/Stormy Night in a Dark Nebula" • "Team Exo-Flex/Dino World" • "The Pluto Rescue/The Taking of the Solar Express" • "The Space Trader/The Quantum Cup" • "The Legend of Sandelion/The Mystery of Atlantix" • "The Hitchhiker's Ride Through the Galaxy/Escape from the Tethoscape" • "The Discovery Expedition/Snow Globe" • "Galactech: Secrets of the Black Hole"
Season Two: "Galactech: Captain Miles/The Search for Spot" • "The Blobbysitters/Astro-Cavers" • "Galactech: How to Build a Robot-Pet/Career Day" • "Galloping Groundshakers/Galactech: March of the Robo-Penguins" • "The Tiny Aliens/The Adventures of Jet Retrograde" • "Galactech: The Galactech Grab/Galactech: An Admiral Rescue" • "Galaxias Quest/Galactech: Mission to the Sun" • "The First Day of Galactic School/Miles Underwater" • "The Galactic Fair/Unfair Getaway" • "Building Day/Galactech: Flight of the Iotas" • "Galactech: Still Rocketing/Merc's Night Out" • "Space Junkers/Help Us, Jet Retrograde!" • "Blackout on Bloppsburgh/The Robot Thief" • "Back in the Groove/Saving Lumaro" • "Galactech: The S'Leet Heist/Galactech: The S'Leet Fleet" • "Once in a Blue Moon/The Queen Gemma Dilemma" • "Galactech: The Mystery of the Dinosaurs" • "Who Stole the Dinosaur?/Nine Minutes 'Til Bedtime" • "Chasing the Stormchaser/Galactech: Loretta‘s Lost BraceLex" • "Gamechangers/Goon Baby Goon" • "Beneath Europa/Callistos on Ice" "Galactech: The Space Trader Strikes Back/Galactech: The Vanishing Callistos" • "Galactech: The Search for the Plectrix/Robo-Monkey Business" • "Connect and Protect" Season Three: "The Great Space Train Robbery/Mission Pets One" • "Villain After Villain/The Discover-Bot Takeover" • "Invaders from Tomorrowland/Rise of the Mountain Crushers" • "Battle for the Zenith/Mission Force Plus One" • "The Magsteeds of Infurnia" • "Stranded in Space/Plant Transplant" • "How to Build a Better Villain/The Goopopolis Swindle" • "Bots of Fury/The Accidental Captives" • "The Junk Monster of Planet Crunkle/The Lost Empire" • "Face-Off/The Big Escape" • "Grendel's Moving Castle/The Great Gadfly" • "Shoom Balla Boom/Friend or FoeBot" • "Deep Trouble/Double Trouble" • "Malison to the Rescue/The Last Guardian" • "Sidekicks For Hire/The Illumin-Aliens" • "Villain Force One/Villain Force Two" • "The Suit Pursuit/Operation Groovestar" • "The Space Station Situation" • "Aggro's Jam/Sea Change" • "Saving Silas/Attack of the Arachno-Bots" • "The Nemesystems Takeover"
Penn Zero • Sashi Kobayashi • Boone Wiseman • Phyllis • Brock Zero • Vonnie Zero • Aunt Rose and Uncle Chuck • Rippen • Principal Larry • Phil • Mayor Pink Panda • Dr. Hissy • Princess Alrgelbaccch Blunkenthorttthhhph • Captain Super Captain • Professor Evil Professor • Eight Ball • Sheriff Scaley Briggs • Blaze • General Talon • Soda Jerk • Amber Briggs • Lady Starblaster • Orchid • Nug • The Milkman • Coach Jackie • Coach Wallace • Mr. Snowman • Pirate Maria • General Bighorn • The Hooded Pixie • Sonny Sonnerstein • Grinkon • Super Amazing Bouncy Ball • Arata, Hideo, and Yumi • Vlurgen • The Guardian • Judge Blort Clooney • Mayor DiReginald Hindenburg •
Songs
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (Opening Theme) • We're Breaking Out of Here for Christmas • Time to Kill • We Can Catch the Milkman • What is a Princess? • Pigoilet • Victory is Mine at Last • The Truth of It Is • Moonlight Bright • This is a Real Song • Boone Reads On • Race to the Top • Race to the Top (reprise) • You're a Karaoke King • High in the Sky • Breath In, Breath Out • Bad Weed • Today's The Day • My Name is Penn Zero • Save the Worlds • In the Splishy Splashy Sea • Come Aboard with Me • Training to Win • Wings of Destiny Song • Sometimes We Need a Friend • Build and Backup Now • The Time Table • Everybody Chillax • Why Won't You Turn Green • It's the Best Friend Song • It's the Best Friend Make Up Song • Grinkon's Song • Its Not Just Today
Episodes
Season One: "North Pole Down" • "Chicken or Fish?/The Old Old West" • "Babypocalypse/That Purple Girl" • "I'm Super!/The Fast and the Floor Rugs" • "Brainzburgerz/Chuckle City" • "Flurgle Burgle/Temple of the Porcelain God" • "Defending the Earth/Number One, Number Two" • "3 Big Problems/Cereal Criminals" • "I'm Still Super!/Balls!" • "The Princess Most Fair/Hail Larry" • "It's a Colorful Life/Larry Manor" • "Lady Starblaster/Amber" • "Totally into Your Body/Fish and Chips" • "The Ripple Effect" • "Where Dragons Dare/Rip-Penn" • "Chuckle City 500/Rock and Roll" • "Plantywood: City of Flora/Boone's Apprentice" • "The QPC/Shirley B. Awesome" • "Massive Morphy Merge Mechs/Ultrahyperball" • "Zap One" • "Save the Worlds"
Season Two: "The Pirates, the Parrot, the Puzzles and the Talking Boats" • "Alpha, Bravo, Unicorn/A Game of Cat and Mouse" • "Wings of Destiny/Sensitivity Training" • "The Bewildering Bout of the Astounding Automatons/Back to the Past of Future Balls" • "A Tale of Two Wizards/Rockullan, Papyron, Scissorian" • "Be My Ghost/The Chinchilla" • "The Kobayashis/Cereal Fugitives" • "The Last Mountain Beast" • "Ninki Ninja Fight Town/My Mischievous Son" • "That Purple Guy/Rootilda" • "The Most Dangerous World Imaginable/Trading Faces" • "13 Big Problems/Mr. Rippen" • "At the End of the Worlds"
Locations
Middleburg • Middleburg Central High • The Odyssey • Fish Stick on a Stick • North Pole • Knight World • Superhero World • Arabian World • Plush Toy World • Clown World • Dinosaur Cowboy World • Cereal World • Old English World • Giant Monster World • Zombie World • Space World • Ocean World • Color World • Musical Fairy Tale World • Caveman Spy World • Future Barbarian World • Ultrahyperball World • Demon World • Alien World • Galaxy World • Temple World • Dragon World • Gothic Mystery World • Plant World • Animal Barbarian World • Toy World • Outer Space Court World • Robot World • Pirate World • Fairymania World • Steampunk World • Ball World • Ghost World • Rock, Paper, Scissor World • Beast World • Anime World • Sitcom World • Nothingness • Most Dangerous World Imaginable • Least Dangerous World Imaginable
Objects
Multi-Universe Hologram Uplink • Multi-Universe Transprojector • Pigoilet • The QPC Unit • Vortex Tops • Specs
