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What is a pterosaur?

What is a pterosaur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several extinct flying reptiles, of the order Pterosauria, including the pterodactyls. [from c. 1860]
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Over the head of Tyrannosaurus rex glides the skeleton of Pteranodon, a pterosaur or flying reptile.
Other important discoveries of ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and a pterosaur followed, as well as invertebrates such as cephalopods and their ink sacs.
Now a newly described fossil of a flying reptile called a pterosaur has been found to have a spinosaur tooth stuck in its spine.
On display are a Sauropod, Protoceratop, Ornithopod, Pterosaur and the Tyrannosaurus-Rex.
A pterosaur is a flying reptile from the Mesozoic period, the time of the dinosaurs.
The Mexican find, a new species of the genus Dimorphodon, is a primitive pterosaur with a long tail and a wingspan of 6 feet.

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