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Saraikisaurus
Saraikisaurus was a flying reptile that lived at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It soared over what is now Pakistan, hunting fish with its beak-like jaws. Even though it looked like a dinosaur, it was actually a pterosaur, a cousin of the dinosaurs.11
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Saraikisaurus lived between 72 and 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.1
Its fossils were found in the Vitakri Formation in Pakistan, a rock layer that was once a river floodplain.1
The only known fossil of Saraikisaurus is a lower jaw bone (mandible), which tells scientists it was a fish-eater.1
Saraikisaurus belongs to a group of pterosaurs called Pterodactyloidea, which includes many large, short-tailed flying reptiles.1
The name Saraikisaurus honors the Saraiki people and language of central Pakistan.1
Saraikisaurus was a pterosaur, not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs.1
Mees gevraagde vrae oor Saraikisaurus
?Is Saraikisaurus a dinosaur?
No, Saraikisaurus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs. It is not a dinosaur.4
?How big was Saraikisaurus?
Scientists are not sure of its full size because only a lower jaw bone has been found. The preserved jaw is about 5.8 cm long, and it was a large pterosaur.3
?What did Saraikisaurus eat?
Saraikisaurus was a fish-eater (piscivore). It used its beak-like jaws with teeth to catch fish.43
?When did Saraikisaurus live?
Saraikisaurus lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period, between about 72 and 66 million years ago.4
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- Vlieënde reptiele
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- Saraikisauridae4
- Klassifikasie
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Ouderdom van die rotse
- 72 tot 66 miljoen jaar (Maastrichtian)4
- Rotsformasies
- Vitakri4
- Lande
- Pakistan4
- Fossielrekords
- 1 in The Paleobiology Database4
- Ontdekking
- Saraikisaurus was named by Pakistani paleontologist M. Sadiq Malkani in 2014, based on a jaw bone found in the Vitakri Formation of Balochistan, Pakistan.11
- Steeds omstrede
- Scientists are not sure how big Saraikisaurus was, because only a jaw bone has been found so far.1
Waar die feite vandaan kom
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Saraikisaurus minnhui | Pterosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Pterosaurs from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent; Were Cretaceous pterosaurs tooth bearing? Diagnostic features of Saraikisaurus minhui a toothed, youngest and latest Cretaceous pterosaur (researchgate.net)
- Saraikisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.
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