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Ikrandraco

Izenaren esanahia: “Ikran dragon, after the flying creatures in the movie Avatar”1
Jaten zuen: ArrainaNarrasti hegalariakBehe KretazeoaTeknikoki ez da dinosauroa

Ikrandraco was a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. It had a long, low skull and a sharp blade-like crest on its lower jaw, unlike any other pterosaur. Scientists think it skimmed over lakes to catch fish, maybe even using a throat pouch like a pelican.2

Datu dibertigarria: pterosauroak dinosauroen gainetik hegan egiten zuten, baina haien lehengusuak ziren, ez dinosauroak.
Bizi izan zen
Duela 121 eta 113 milioi urte artean4
Behe Kretazeoa
Fosilak hemen aurkitu dira:
Liaoning Province, China (Jiufotang Formation)2
Luzera
1,5 eta 2 m artean (4,9 eta 6,6 ft artean)2
Hego-zabalera
3 eta 4 m artean (9,8 eta 13 ft artean)2
Abiadura maximoa
63 km/h inguru (39 mph)
Hegan egitea, kalkulua

Noiz bizi izan zen?

Triasikoa
Jurasikoa
Kretazeoa
Duela 252 milioi urte20114566, asteroidea

Zein handia zen?

Zein luzea zen?

Ikrandraco 2 m inguru luze (6,6 ft)Txakur bat 1 m inguru (3,3 ft)Heldu baten bizikleta 1,8 m inguru (5,9 ft)Auto bat 4,5 m inguru (15 ft)
4 etxeko katu bezain luze, sudurretik buztanerabata bestearen atzean jarritako 11 banana bezain luzefutbol zelai oso bat zeharkatu zezakeen hegan 6 segundotan

Zein handia zen Ikrandraco ZUREKIN alderatuta?

Zure nabigatzaileko kalkulu hutsak. Ez da ezer gordetzen ez inora bidaltzen.

Zein azkarra zen?

gauza bikainak

Datu dibertigarriak

1

Ikrandraco's lower jaw had a deep, blade-like crest with a hook at the back. No other pterosaur has this feature.2

2

The hook on the crest might have anchored a throat pouch, like a pelican's, to store fish.21

3

Its skull was very low and long, only about 18.7% as tall as it was long.2

4

Ikrandraco lived alongside other fish-eating pterosaurs like Liaoningopterus and Guidraco, but they had different teeth and hunting styles.2

5

The name Ikrandraco comes from the fictional 'ikran' creatures in the movie Avatar, which also have a head crest.1

6

Two fossils of Ikrandraco have been found, both from the same rock formation in China.2

AAk eginaIkrandraco: AAk egindako irudia
Ikrandraco nolakoa izan zitekeen erakusten duen AAk egindako irudia, ordenagailu batek zientzialariek dakitenetik sortua. Asmakizun bat da: benetako animalia desberdina izan zitekeen, eta inork ez daki zein ziren bere benetako koloreak.
zure galderak

Ikrandraco: gehien egindako galderak

?How big was Ikrandraco?

Its skull was about 286.5 millimetres (11.28 inches) long. The full size of the animal is not known from the fossils found so far.1

?What did Ikrandraco eat?

It ate fish. Scientists think it skimmed over lakes to catch them, and it may have stored fish in a throat pouch like a pelican.13

?Did Ikrandraco have feathers?

No, Ikrandraco was a pterosaur, a flying reptile. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and they had hair like structures called pycnofibres instead of feathers.1

?Where did Ikrandraco live?

It lived in what is now northeastern China, about 120 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous.13

Mito-hauslea

Mitoa: Ikrandraco was a dinosaur.

Egia: Ikrandraco was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1

Dino adituentzat

Izen zientifikoa
Ikrandraco
Izendatzailea:
Wang et al. 20144
Taldea
Narrasti hegalariak
Familia / klada
Pteranodontoidea4
Sailkapena
Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
Arroken adina
121 eta 113 milioi urte artean (Aptian)4
Arroka-formazioak
Jiufotang4
Herrialdeak
Txina4
Fosil-erregistroak
2 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean4
Aurkikuntza
Ikrandraco was named in 2014 by Wang Xiaolin and colleagues, based on a partial skeleton found in Liaoning, China. A second skull was also found nearby.21
Oraindik eztabaidagai
Scientists are not sure if Ikrandraco really used its crest for skimming or if it had a throat pouch, because no soft tissue is preserved.2

Datuak nondik datozen

  1. Ikrandraco (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
  3. untitled (nature.com)
  4. Ikrandraco in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.

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