Ludodactylus
Ludodactylus was a flying reptile with a big head crest and lots of teeth. It lived about 112 million years ago in what is now Brazil. One fossil even has a yucca leaf stuck in its beak!14
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Datos curiosos
Ludodactylus means 'play finger' because it looked like toy pterosaurs that had both teeth and a head crest, which real scientists thought didn't exist until this fossil was found.1
Its skull was more than 66 centimeters (26 inches) long.1
The only known fossil is a skull with a yucca leaf stuck between its lower jaws. Scientists think the pterosaur got the leaf caught in its beak and maybe died from starvation.1
Ludodactylus had a crest on the back of its skull but no crest on its snout, unlike many other pterosaurs.1
The species name L. sibbicki honors paleoartist John Sibbick.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Ludodactylus
?How big was Ludodactylus?
Its wingspan was about 4 meters (13 feet), and its skull was more than 66 centimeters (26 inches) long.13
?What did Ludodactylus eat?
It ate fish, like many other pterosaurs of its time.3
?Did Ludodactylus have a crest?
Yes, it had a crest on the back of its skull, but no crest on its snout.1
?Is Ludodactylus a dinosaur?
No, it is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived during the time of dinosaurs but is not a dinosaur itself.1
Cazamitos
Mito: Some people think Ludodactylus is the same as Brasileodactylus.
Verdade: Scientists now agree Ludodactylus is a different genus, closely related to anhanguerid pterosaurs like Caulkicephalus.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Ludodactylus
- Bautizado por
- Frey et al. 20034
- Grupo
- Réptiles voadores
- Familia / clado
- Ornithocheiroidea4
- Clasificación
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Idade das rochas
- de 120 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Crato4
- Países
- Brasil4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Ludodactylus was named by Eberhard Frey and colleagues in 2003 based on a skull found in the Crato Formation of Brazil. The fossil was illegally sold and missing part of the head crest.14
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists still debate whether Ludodactylus belongs to the family Anhangueridae or is just outside it, because different studies place it in slightly different groups.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Ludodactylus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Ludodactylus — Pteros (pteros.com)
- Ludodactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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