Aralazhdarcho
Aralazhdarcho was a flying reptile that lived in what is now Kazakhstan. It had a long neck and no teeth, and it probably ate fish. It was a type of pterosaur called an azhdarchid.14
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Datos curiosos
Aralazhdarcho is known from only a few bones, including a neck vertebra and part of a wing finger.1
It lived during the Santonian to early Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous, about 85 to 72 million years ago.14
The name Aralazhdarcho combines the Aral Sea and the related pterosaur Azhdarcho.1
Some scientists think that another pterosaur called Samrukia might actually be the same as Aralazhdarcho.1
Aralazhdarcho was toothless, like other azhdarchid pterosaurs.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Aralazhdarcho
?How big was Aralazhdarcho?
Nobody knows for sure. Only a few bones have been found, so its exact size is unknown.1
?What did Aralazhdarcho eat?
It probably ate fish. It had no teeth and lived near a marine bay, so it likely caught fish with its beak.13
?Is Aralazhdarcho a dinosaur?
No, it is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Aralazhdarcho
- Bautizado por
- Averianov 20074
- Grupo
- Réptiles voadores
- Familia / clado
- Azhdarchidae4
- Clasificación
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea > Azhdarchidae4
- Idade das rochas
- de 86 a 72 millóns de anos (Santonian / Campanian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Bostobe4
- Países
- Casaquistán4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Aralazhdarcho was named in 2007 by Russian paleontologist Alexander Averianov. The first fossil, a neck vertebra, was found in the 1950s and later described in 2004.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Aralazhdarcho was, because only a few bones have been found.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Aralazhdarcho (en.wikipedia.org)
- New records of Azhdarchids (Pterosauria, Azhdarchidae) from the late Cretaceous of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia (doc.rero.ch)
- Review of taxonomy, geographic distribution, and paleoenvironments of Azhdarchidae (Pterosauria) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Aralazhdarcho in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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