Lonchognathosaurus

Naam beteken: “lance jaw lizard”1

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Lonchognathosaurus was a flying reptile with a long, pointed snout and needle-like teeth. It soared over lakes and rivers in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 137 to 100 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a pterosaur, a close cousin of dinosaurs.1 2

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

Het geleef

137 tot 100 miljoen jaar gelede4

Vroeë Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Fossils were found in the Lianmuqin Formation, near Urumqi, in the southern Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.1 3

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)

Lonchognathosaurus 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

Its skull was about 400 mm (15.75 inches) long, and the tip of its upper jaw was needle-like.1

It had only eight teeth in each upper jaw, and they were spaced far apart, getting smaller towards the back.1 3

Unlike many other pterosaurs, the bottom edge of its upper jaw was straight, not curved.1

It had a crest on its head with grooves and a concave front edge.1

In 2022, a wing bone from Siberia was identified as possibly belonging to Lonchognathosaurus, suggesting it lived over a wider area than first thought.1

Some scientists think it might be the same as another pterosaur called Dsungaripterus, but others disagree.1 2

KI-prent van Lonchognathosaurus — 'n KI-prent van hoe Lonchognathosaurus 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.

Mite-breker

Mite: Lonchognathosaurus was a dinosaur.

Waarheid: It was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is a close cousin of dinosaurs, but not a dinosaur itself.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Lonchognathosaurus
Benoem deur: Maisch et al. 20044
Groep: Vlieënde reptiele
Familie / klade: Dsungaripteridae4
Klassifikasie: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
Ouderdom van die rotse: 137 tot 100 miljoen jaar (Valanginian / Albian)4
Rotsformasies: Lianmuqin4
Lande: China4
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking: The first fossil, a partial skull and lower jaws, was found near Urumqi, China, and named by Michael Maisch, Andreas Matzke, and Sun Ge in 2004.1 3
Steeds omstrede: Scientists debate whether Lonchognathosaurus is a valid genus or the same as Dsungaripterus or Noripterus.1 2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Lonchognathosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Lonchognathosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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