Aerodraco

Naam beteken: “air dragon”3

Het geëet: VisVlieënde reptieleVroeë KrytTegnies nie 'n dinosourus nie

Aerodraco was a flying reptile that soared over the seas of England about 105 million years ago. It was a pterosaur, not a dinosaur, and it had a long beak full of teeth for catching fish.3 1

Prettige feit: pterosourusse het oor die dinosourusse gevlieg, maar hulle was hul neefs, nie self dinosourusse nie.

Het geleef

106 tot 100 miljoen jaar gelede3

Vroeë Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Cambridge Greensand, England, United Kingdom3

Topspoed

omtrent 52 km/h (32 mph)

Vlieënd, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias

Jura

Kryt

252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe vinnig was dit?

'n Mens wat loop omtrent 5 km/h (3 mph)

'n Kind op 'n fiets omtrent 12 km/h (7 mph)

Aerodraco omtrent 52 km/h (32 mph)

'n Galopperende perd omtrent 65 km/h (40 mph)

'n Jagluiperd omtrent 100 km/h (62 mph)

cool goed

Prettige feite

Aerodraco was named in 2020 by scientists Holgado and Pegas, who studied old fossils and gave them a new name.3 1

It belonged to a group of pterosaurs called coloborhynchines, which had a bony crest on top of their snouts.1

Its fossils were found in marine rocks, so it probably lived near the coast and flew over the ocean.3

Aerodraco lived during the Late Albian age, about 106 to 100 million years ago.3

The only known species is Aerodraco sedgwickii, which was originally thought to be a different pterosaur.3 1

KI-prent van Aerodraco — 'n KI-prent van hoe Aerodraco dalk gelyk het, deur 'n rekenaar gemaak uit wat wetenskaplikes weet. Dit is 'n raaiskoot: die regte dier het dalk anders gelyk, en niemand weet wat sy regte kleure was nie.

julle het gevra

Mees gevraagde vrae oor Aerodraco

?How big was Aerodraco?

Its exact size is unknown because only a partial snout has been found, but it was probably a medium-sized pterosaur with a wingspan of a few metres.2 1

?What did Aerodraco eat?

It ate fish, using its long beak full of teeth to catch them near the coast.2

?When did Aerodraco live?

It lived about 105 to 100 million years ago, during the Late Albian and Cenomanian ages.2 1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Aerodraco
Benoem deur: Holgado and Pegas 20203
Groep: Vlieënde reptiele
Familie / klade: Anhangueridae3
Klassifikasie: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 106 tot 100 miljoen jaar (Albian)3
Rotsformasies: West Melbury Marly Chalk3
Lande: Verenigde Koninkryk3
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: Aerodraco was named in 2020 by Borja Holgado and Rodrigo V. Pêgas, who re-examined a fossil that had been called Pterodactylus sedgwickii since 1859.3 1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are not sure about the exact size of Aerodraco because only a few bone fragments have been found.3

Waar die feite vandaan kom

A taxonomic and phylogenetic review of the anhanguerid pterosaur group Coloborhynchinae and the new clade Tropeognathinae - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (app.pan.pl)
Aerodraco (en.wikipedia.org)
Aerodraco in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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