>>87813283Realistically, they might not even have a concept of pterosaurs as a 'class'. A lot of pre-modern cultures didn't distinguish between bats and birds, so there's a good chance that any 'ordinary' winged animal will just get lumped in with 'birds' (like whales, seals, etc. and even squid get classed as 'fish', or worms, snakes, and everything else with that legless body-plan gets thrown in together). When people carve the world into categories, they don't often choose ones which neatly map onto scientific definitions.
Assuming they distinguish them from birds, I'd guess they are likely to be lumped in with bats based on similar features (hair-like covering, bare-skin wings, quadrupedal). If you don't want to say 'bat' then possibly something simple and descriptive like 'skin-wings' for the overall category. But 'pterodactyl' already translates (roughly) to skin-wing, so you could just use that (it's the word that most people use when they mean 'pterosaur').
If they somehow identify them as reptilian, then maybe something like bat-lizards, wing-lizards (literally pterosaur), wing-worms, etc.
Or take basically any mythical flying monster you aren't already using and use that. 'Drake' has about the right connotations in modern English.
If you like, you can make it more 'bronze age' by using a myth from the specific culture you want to emulate, and possibly tracing it's etymology backwards to older linguistic roots.
