Aurorazhdarcho
Aurorazhdarcho was a small flying reptile that lived 150 million years ago. It soared over warm lagoons in what is now Germany, using its long jaws to scoop up tiny animals from the water.1
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Datos curiosos
Aurorazhdarcho had a wingspan of about 1.1 metres (3.6 feet), making it one of the smaller pterosaurs.1
Its head and neck are known only from impressions, because a predator almost ripped them off before the body sank.1
The fossil was found in 1999 by amateur paleontologist Peter Kaszmekat in a quarry near Eichstätt, Germany.1
It had up to 18 long, curved teeth on each side of its jaws, which interlocked to form a basket for catching food.1
Scientists think it may have fed like a spoonbill, wading with its jaws open and snapping shut on prey.1
The type specimen was probably a male, because its pelvis bones were fused in a way that suggests it lacked a wide birth canal.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Aurorazhdarcho
?What did Aurorazhdarcho eat?
It ate small animals from the water. It used its long jaws and up to 18 curved teeth per side to scoop up tiny prey like a spoonbill.1
?How big was Aurorazhdarcho?
It was a small pterosaur with a wingspan of about 1.1 metres (3.6 feet). Its wing bones measured about 54 centimetres (21 inches) long.1
Cazamitos
Mito: Aurorazhdarcho was a dinosaur.
Verdade: It was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs but was not a dinosaur.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Aurorazhdarcho
- Bautizado por
- Frey et al. 20113
- Grupo
- Réptiles voadores
- Familia / clado
- Protazhdarchidae3
- Clasificación
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Idade das rochas
- de 149 a 145 millóns de anos (Tithonian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Solnhofen3
- Países
- Alemaña3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- The first fossil was found in 1999 by amateur Peter Kaszmekat in Germany. It was named Aurorazhdarcho primordius by Eberhard Frey and colleagues in 2011.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists debate whether Aurorazhdarcho is really a separate genus or just a young Gnathosaurus, because the skulls look similar.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Aurorazhdarcho (en.wikipedia.org)
- The oldest azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone (Early Tithonian) of Southern Germany (exa.ai)
- Aurorazhdarcho in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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