it was rather unlikely that his ideas were correct, since authorities like Georges Cuvier and William Buckland thought pterosaurs were reptiles, but, even so, it was still possible that the experts were wrong and he got it right. References Michael A. Salmon - The Aurelian Legacy Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917) p. 440–442 Newman E - Note on the pterodactyle tribe considered as marsupial bats The Zoologist 1, 129-131 (1843) Desmond A J - The Hot-blooded Dinosaurs (1977) External links 1801 births 1876 deaths People from Hampstead English botanists English lepidopterists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Fellows of the Zoological Society of London English entomologists