Navajodactylus
Navajodactylus was a flying reptile that soared over what is now New Mexico, USA, about 75 million years ago. It had a wingspan as wide as a small car and probably snatched fish from ancient rivers.13
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Navajodactylus is known from only a few wing bones, including a piece of the first wing finger phalanx.1
Its name honors the Navajo Nation, combining 'Navajo' with the Greek word for finger, 'daktylos'.1
The holotype fossil was discovered by oceanographer Arjan C. Boeré in 2002.1
Scientists are not sure if Navajodactylus belongs to the azhdarchid family, because its wing bones lack air spaces that azhdarchids usually have.1
Navajodactylus lived about 75 million years ago, during the late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.12
Some fossils from Alberta, Canada were once thought to be Navajodactylus, but later scientists assigned them to a different pterosaur called Cryodrakon.1

Navajodactylus: gehien egindako galderak
?How big was Navajodactylus?
It was a medium sized pterosaur with an estimated wingspan of 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), about as wide as a small car.1
?What did Navajodactylus eat?
It probably snatched fish from ancient rivers, like many other pterosaurs.1
?Is Navajodactylus a dinosaur?
No, it is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1
Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Navajodactylus
- Izendatzailea:
- Sullivan and Fowler 20113
- Taldea
- Narrasti hegalariak
- Familia / klada
- Azhdarchidae3
- Sailkapena
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea > Azhdarchidae3
- Arroken adina
- 84 eta 72 milioi urte artean (Campanian)3
- Arroka-formazioak
- Kirtland3
- Herrialdeak
- AEB3
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 2 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
- Aurkikuntza
- Navajodactylus was named by Robert M. Sullivan and Denver W. Fowler in 2011, based on a wing bone found by Arjan C. Boeré in the Kirtland Formation of New Mexico.13
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists debate whether Navajodactylus is truly an azhdarchid pterosaur, because it lacks the air-filled bones typical of that group.1
Datuak nondik datozen
- Navajodactylus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sullivan and Fowler, 2011 -Navajodactylus, 1st pterosaur material from New Mexico (denverfowler.com)
- Navajodactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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