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Tupandactylus

O nome significa: “Tupã finger, after the Tupi thunder god”1
Comía: PlantasRéptiles voadoresCretáceo InferiorTecnicamente non é un dinosauro

Tupandactylus was a flying reptile with a huge, colorful crest on its head. It lived in what is now Brazil about 115 million years ago and probably ate plants like a flying fruit-lover.12

Dato curioso: os pterosauros voaban por riba dos dinosauros, pero eran os seus curmáns, non dinosauros.
Viviu
hai entre 120 e 113 millóns de anos5
Cretáceo Inferior
Fósiles atopados en
Crato Formation, Ceará, Brazil12
Envergadura
2,7 a 4 m (8,9 a 13 ft)1
Altura
1,5 m (4,9 ft)1
Velocidade máxima
uns 63 km/h (39 mph)
Voar, estimación

Cando viviu?

Triásico
Xurásico
Cretáceo
Hai 252 millóns de anos20114566, o asteroide

Como era de grande?

Que anchura tiñan as súas ás?

Tupandactylus ás de uns 4 m dunha punta á outra (13 ft)Unha bici de adulto uns 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Un coche uns 4,5 m (15 ft)Un elefante, o animal terrestre máis grande de hoxe uns 6,5 m (21 ft)

Canto medía de alto?

Un canuns 0,5 m (1,6 ft)Tupandactylusuns 1,5 m de alto (4,9 ft)Un cabalouns 1,6 m (5,2 ft)Un elefanteuns 3,2 m (10 ft)
ás tan anchas coma 2 bicicletas en filapodería voar sobre un campo de fútbol enteiro en 6 segundos

Como era de grande Tupandactylus comparado CONTIGO?

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Que velocidade alcanzaba?

cousas xeniais

Datos curiosos

1

Tupandactylus had a giant head crest made of soft tissue and supported by bone spines. In T. imperator the crest was round, while in T. navigans it was tall and vertical.1

2

Its name comes from Tupã, the Tupi thunder god, and daktylos, the Greek word for finger.1

3

Tupandactylus probably spent a lot of time on the ground and only flew short distances, because its big crest made flying harder.1

4

The first fossil of Tupandactylus was a skull and partial lower jaw found in the Crato Formation of Brazil.1

5

Scientists think Tupandactylus may have been a terrestrial forager, walking around on the ground to find food.1

6

Tupandactylus had a fifth toe on its foot with a single bone, a feature seen in some other azhdarchoid pterosaurs.3

Feito con IAImaxe de Tupandactylus feita con IA
Unha imaxe feita con IA de como podería ser Tupandactylus, creada por un ordenador a partir do que saben os científicos. É unha suposición: o animal real podía ser diferente, e ninguén sabe as súas cores de verdade.
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As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Tupandactylus

?How big was Tupandactylus?

Tupandactylus imperator had a wingspan of about 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13.1 feet) and stood about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) tall to the tip of its crest. The smaller species, T. navigans, had a wingspan of about 2.7 metres (8.9 feet).14

?Why did Tupandactylus have a crest?

Scientists think the crest was used for social or sexual display, like a peacock's tail. It was made of soft tissue and bone, and it was so big it may have made flying harder.14

?What did Tupandactylus eat?

Tupandactylus probably ate plants, like fruit, and may have used its long neck to reach food from higher bushes. Some fossils show plant material near its skull, hinting it was a herbivore.14

?Was Tupandactylus a dinosaur?

No, Tupandactylus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur. It is closely related to dinosaurs but belongs to a separate group.1

?When did Tupandactylus live?

Tupandactylus lived about 112 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period, in what is now Brazil.1

Cazamitos

Mito: Some people think Tupandactylus was a dinosaur.

Verdade: Tupandactylus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1

Para expertos en dinos

Nome científico
Tupandactylus
Bautizado por
Kellner and Campos 20075
Grupo
Réptiles voadores
Familia / clado
Tapejaridae5
Clasificación
Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea5
Idade das rochas
de 120 a 113 millóns de anos (Aptian)5
Formacións rochosas
Crato5
Países
Brasil5
Rexistros fósiles
3 na Paleobiology Database5
Descubrimento
Tupandactylus was first described in 1997 as a species of Tapejara by D. A. Campos and Alexander W. A. Kellner. In 2007, Campos and Kellner gave it its own genus name Tupandactylus.1
Aínda en debate
Scientists are not sure if Tupandactylus imperator and Tupandactylus navigans are two different species or just males and females of the same species.1

De onde veñen os datos

  1. Tupandactylus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  3. Redescription of Tupandactylus imperator Campos & Keller, 1997 (Pterosauria, Tapejaridae) based on a new complete specimen from the Crato Formation (Aptian-Albian) of the Araripe Basin, Ceará, Brazil (doi.org)
  4. Pterosaur had a head crest so tall it may have made it hard to fly | New Scientist (newscientist.com)
  5. Tupandactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.

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