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Parapsicephalus

Ate: FishFlying reptilesEarly JurassicNot technically a dinosaur

Parapsicephalus belongs to the group: Flying reptiles. Its fossils come from rocks about 184 to 183 million years old.1

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

Lived

184 to 183 million years ago1

Early Jurassic

Most fossils found in

United Kingdom1

Food

Fish1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

AI-made picture of Parapsicephalus — An AI-made picture of how Parapsicephalus 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: Parapsicephalus
Named by: Arthaber 19191
Group: Flying reptiles
Family / clade: Macronychoptera1
Classification: Pterosauria1
Age of the rocks: 184 to 183 million years (Toarcian)1
Rock formations: Alum Shale, Whitby Mudstone1
Countries: United Kingdom1
Fossil records: 2 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

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

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