Bakiribu waridza fed like a whale, filtering tiny animals through thousands of teeth.
And a Pterosaur, actually.
Perhaps rather like a flamingo, with brine shrimp.
Even millions of years from now, I would not want to be remembered by intelligent creatures I can’t even imagine as a “Regurgitalite”.
It’s only a step above “coprophagite”
We have a very small fraction of the history of life on Earth preserved in the fossil record, and pterosaurs are among the least well preserved creatures because their bones were so thin in order to allow flight. A palentological podcast I had listened to described them as barely more robust than something built out of balsa wood and paper.
Further, not every environment fossilizes. As a result, pretty much all the pterosaurs we know of are relatively large and lived by the coast. We basically just have the gull and the albatross analogues.
My guess is that true pterosaur biodiversity was akin to modern birds, or perhaps bats. In either case, these are extremely diverse groups, because flight lets you fill all kinds of niches.
But the places richest in birds - tropical rainforests - don’t fossilize very well. We very rarely find sites that are exceptions that prove the rule - stuff like an anoxic lake in the middle of a forest - and we catch some glimpses of what tiny forest pterosaurs were like:
