Lacusovagus
Lacusovagus was a big flying reptile that soared over ancient Brazil. It had no teeth and no crest on its head, which made it different from many other pterosaurs. It was the largest pterosaur found in the Crato Formation.12
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Lacusovagus had a long, wide skull and a short snout in front of its big nasal opening.1
It was toothless, which is unusual for pterosaurs from the Crato Formation.1
Its wingspan was about 4 metres (13 feet), making it the biggest pterosaur known from the Crato Formation.1
Lacusovagus weighed around 30 kilograms (66 pounds), similar to a large dog.1
Scientists think it belonged to a group called Chaoyangopteridae, but some studies place it with Tupuxuara or Tapejaridae.1
Most asked questions about Lacusovagus
?Was Lacusovagus a dinosaur?
No, Lacusovagus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs but was not a dinosaur itself.1
?How big was Lacusovagus?
Lacusovagus had a wingspan of about 4 metres (13 feet) and weighed around 30 kilograms (66 pounds), about the size of a large dog.1
?Did Lacusovagus have teeth?
No, Lacusovagus had no teeth. Its toothless jaws and lack of a head crest made it unusual among pterosaurs from the Crato Formation.1
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- Scientific name
- Lacusovagus
- Named by
- Witton 20084
- Group
- Flying reptiles
- Family / clade
- Chaoyangopteridae4
- Classification
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Age of the rocks
- 120 to 113 million years (Aptian)4
- Rock formations
- Crato4
- Countries
- Brazil4
- Fossil records
- 1 in the Paleobiology Database4
- Discovery
- Lacusovagus was named in 2008 by Mark Witton based on a partial upper jaw found in the Crato Formation of Brazil.14
- Still debated
- Scientists are not sure exactly which group of pterosaurs Lacusovagus belongs to. Some think it is a chaoyangopterid, others place it with Tupuxuara or in Tapejaridae.1
Where the facts come from
- Lacusovagus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian?) of Brazil | The Palaeontological Association (palass.org)
- A NEW AZHDARCHOID PTEROSAUR FROM THE CRATO FORMATION (LOWER CRETACEOUS, APTIAN?) OF BRAZIL - WITTON - 2008 - Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Lacusovagus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.
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