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Arthurdactylus

Ate: FishFlying reptilesEarly CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Arthurdactylus belongs to the group: Flying reptiles. Its fossils come from rocks about 120 to 113 million years old.1

Fun fact: pterosaurs flew over the dinosaurs, but they were their cousins, not dinosaurs themselves.

Lived

120 to 113 million years ago1

Early Cretaceous

Most fossils found in

Brazil1

Food

Fish1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

AI-made picture of Arthurdactylus — An AI-made picture of how Arthurdactylus might have looked, made by a computer from what scientists know. It is a guess: the real animal may have looked different, and nobody knows its true colours.

For dino experts

Scientific name: Arthurdactylus
Named by: Frey and Martill 19941
Group: Flying reptiles
Family / clade: Ornithocheiridae1
Classification: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea1
Age of the rocks: 120 to 113 million years (Aptian)1
Rock formations: Crato1
Countries: Brazil1
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

Arthurdactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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