Pteranodon are incredible useful and can be a really good first flyer. Here is why:

-very easy creatures to tame. You just need a bunch of raw prime fish meat ( you can collect a lot by killing sabertooth salmons with sickle and collect their meat ) and 3 tranqs ( or 1 with a X-bow ). I should recommend taking 4 raw prime fish meat and 2 narcs also for the taming.

-They take quiet fast level up after taming and can fast get to 400-500 health.

-They do quiet a lot of damages ( I managed to kill a low level Rex with a lvl 5 pteranodon and a spike ).

- They are quiet fast and even tough not the best for collect and harvesting, they are incredibly useful for exploration of the map.

-When out of energy, their stamina reloads fast.

BUT: To not loose every ptera you tame, here are some tips:

-When they are out of stamina, they will land and you can’t really control where. So make sure there are not carnivors or any aggressive dinos around when you’re low on energy, or you might die very fast ( especially Rex, Allo, Spino and of course gigas ). Since they are flyers and quiet small, you can easily land on rocks that carnivores can’t access ( and you can regain stamina safely )

-Make sure to always have some food to feed them ( as they starve quiet fast when out of food ).

-When you want to tame a dino, land with them on a rock and set them on « passive » so they will be safe waiting for you and they will not attack and kill ( or get killed by ) the dino you’re trying to tame.

-When you land, make sure they will not fall ( especially when exploring the big mountains ), bcs they will take a lot of fall damages.

You will make these mistakes, even tough you think about it, you will make them. ( I lost 10 pteras ). So I should recommend you to tame 5,6 of them to have some more if you come to die with one of them.

By the way sorry if my English is not the best, I’m Belgian.

I hope this was useful 😀

Especially for newer players. Make sure you keep an eye on the stamina bar. You don't want it to run out while airborn. I've lost a bird or 5 to that alone.

How to do barrel roll on mobile: Go to settings and then go to controls then either go to left multi tap or right multi tap. Then select Reload/Alt attack2. When you are done, go and press on your screen twice on either left or ritght side. And you pteranodon can now do a barrel roll! Disclaimer:wastes stamina alot so be careful. Like so newbies see this!

Pteranodons can collect bio toxin from cnidarias. Like it up to make it known.

Literally carrying until you get a Tapejara or Argy

Use the barrel roll attack and it harvest meat prime meat and mutton really well.

please like for mor people to know this.✌️

If you play on mobile and want to do the roll then go to settings left or right multi tap and chose alt attack 2 !!!

NOW FOR THE MAIN PART--- THESE THINGS CAN KILL GIGAS the normal roll does decent damage but if you roll and attack a dino while watching the dino through spyglass you can deal tons of damage (this works in mobile idk about other platforms) i killed tons of rexes,brontos,allos..etc. using this trick

Δ IF THIS HELPS~~

Don’t fly to high if it runs out of stamina you have 7 seconds to land or your pterdon will fall asleep and you will take massive damage

I didn't realize for a Looooooooooong time how useful the barrel roll is. Seriously, I've killed alpha rexes with it. Give it a shot!

Argy is rated higher for gathering prime but these things spin attack will get much more prime than an argy