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Fenghuangopterus

Ate: FishFlying reptilesMiddle Jurassic to Late JurassicNot technically a dinosaur

Fenghuangopterus belongs to the group: Flying reptiles. Its fossils come from rocks about 168 to 152 million years old.1

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

Lived

168 to 152 million years ago1

Middle Jurassic to Late Jurassic

Most fossils found in

China1

Food

Fish1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

AI-made picture of Fenghuangopterus — An AI-made picture of how Fenghuangopterus 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: Fenghuangopterus
Named by: Lü et al. 20101
Group: Flying reptiles
Family / clade: Scaphognathidae1
Classification: Pterosauria1
Age of the rocks: 168 to 152 million years (Bathonian / Kimmeridgian)1
Rock formations: Tiaojishan1
Countries: China1
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

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

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