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Kariridraco

Ate: Fruit and plantsFlying reptilesEarly CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Kariridraco 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
Fruit and plants1

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
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An AI-made picture of how Kariridraco 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
Kariridraco
Named by
Cerqueira et al. 20211
Group
Flying reptiles
Family / clade
Tapejaridae1
Classification
Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea1
Age of the rocks
120 to 113 million years (Aptian)1
Rock formations
Romualdo1
Countries
Brazil1
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

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

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