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Camposipterus

Say it: KAM-pos-IP-ter-us

Name means: “Campos' wing”1

Ate: FishFlying reptilesEarly CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Camposipterus was a flying reptile that soared over ancient England about 112 million years ago. It had a long, narrow snout and probably snatched fish from the sea with its sharp teeth.1 4

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

Lived

106 to 100 million years ago4

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom1 2

Food

Fish4

Wingspan

2.8 m3

estimate

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How wide were its wings?

wings as wide as 1.5 bicycles in a row

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Camposipterus was named in 2013 after Brazilian paleontologist Diogenes de Almeida Campos.1

Its fossils come from the Cambridge Greensand, a rock layer that is about 100 to 106 million years old.4

The first fossil of Camposipterus was just the front part of a snout, found at Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.1

Camposipterus did not have a crest on its snout, unlike some other pterosaurs.2

Scientists are not sure if two other species, Camposipterus sedgwickii and Camposipterus colorhinus, really belong to this genus.1

The name of the species Camposipterus nasutus means 'with a long nose' in Latin.1

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Scientific name: Camposipterus
Named by: Rodrigues and Kellner 20134
Group: Flying reptiles
Family / clade: Anhangueria4
Classification: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
Age of the rocks: 106 to 100 million years (Albian)4
Rock formations: West Melbury Marly Chalk4
Countries: United Kingdom4
Fossil records: 3 in the Paleobiology Database4
Discovery: The first fossil was described by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869 as Ptenodactylus nasutus, but he later renamed it Ornithocheirus nasutus. In 2013, Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Kellner gave it the new genus name Camposipterus.1 2
Still debated: Scientists are unsure whether the species Camposipterus sedgwickii and Camposipterus colorhinus truly belong to the genus Camposipterus.1

Where the facts come from

Camposipterus (en.wikipedia.org)
Taxonomic review of the Ornithocheirus complex (Pterosauria) from the Cretaceous of England (zookeys.pensoft.net)
Camposipterus nasutus | Pterosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Camposipterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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