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Eurolimnornis

Say it: yoo-roh-LIM-nor-nis

Name means: “European marsh bird”1

Ate: FishFlying reptilesEarly CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Eurolimnornis was a small flying reptile that lived in the Early Cretaceous period, about 143 million years ago. It soared over a warm, tropical archipelago of volcanic and coral islands, hunting for fish in the rivers and lakes below.1

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

Lived

143 to 137 million years ago3

Early Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Cornet near Oradea, Romania1

Food

Fish3

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

cool stuff

Fun facts

Eurolimnornis was first thought to be a bird, but later studies showed it was actually a pterosaur, a flying reptile.1

The only known fossil of Eurolimnornis is a tiny piece of its upper arm bone, called a humerus.1

Eurolimnornis lived on a chain of volcanic and coral islands, similar to the Caribbean or Indonesia today.1

The climate where Eurolimnornis lived was warmer and wetter than today, with many rivers, lakes and swamps.1

Eurolimnornis is sometimes considered a junior synonym of Palaeocursornis, meaning they might be the same animal.2

AI-made picture of Eurolimnornis — An AI-made picture of how Eurolimnornis 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.

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Scientific name: Eurolimnornis
Named by: Kessler 19873
Group: Flying reptiles
Family / clade: Pterosauria3
Classification: Pterosauria3
Age of the rocks: 143 to 137 million years (Berriasian)3
Rock formations: Lower Bauxite3
Countries: Romania3
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database3
Discovery: Eurolimnornis was named by Eugen Kessler in 1987 based on a fossil found in Romania. The name was originally given to a bird, but later reclassified as a pterosaur.1 3

Where the facts come from

Eurolimnornis (en.m.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Eurolimnornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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