Its name actually means " toothed turtle." And those teeth looked nothing like pareiasaur teeth.

它的名字实际上意味着“有齿的乌龟”。那些牙齿看起来一点也不像翼龙的牙齿。

Likewise, a later pareiasaur called Anthodon had more developed bony plates that formed a layer of armor a lot like a turtle's shell.

同样，后来一种名为 Anthodon 的翼龙具有更发达的骨板，这些骨板形成了一层很像乌龟壳的盔甲。

And by the late 1940s, this theory became even more specific, suggesting that turtles were related to a particular group of extinct parareptiles called pareiasaurs.

到 20 世纪 40 年代后期， 这一理论变得更加具体，表明海龟与一种特殊的已灭绝的副爬行动物类群有亲缘关系， 这种类爬行动物被称为 pareiasaurs。

So it's not too hard to see why a lot of paleontologists thought that pareiasaurs were closely related to turtles — and were maybe even their direct ancestors.

因此，不难理解为什么许多古生物学家认为翼龙与海龟密切相关——甚至可能是它们的直系祖先。