Afrotapejara
Afrotapejara was a flying reptile that lived in what is now Morocco. It had a downturned beak and no teeth, just like a modern bird. Scientists think it might have eaten fruit.14
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Its name means 'African Tapejara', because it comes from Africa and looks like the Brazilian pterosaur Tapejara.1
Afrotapejara had a downturned beak and no teeth, which is unusual for pterosaurs.1
It lived during the mid-Cretaceous period, about 106 to 94 million years ago.4
Only a partial jaw bone (the front part of the upper beak) has been found so far.1
The Kem Kem beds in Morocco, where Afrotapejara was found, are famous for many other pterosaurs and dinosaurs.1

Эң көп берилген суроолор: Afrotapejara
?What did Afrotapejara eat?
Scientists think it might have eaten fruit, but no one knows for sure. It had no teeth, like a bird, and its beak shape is similar to animals that eat fruit.1
?Was Afrotapejara a dinosaur?
No, Afrotapejara was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs.3
?How big was Afrotapejara?
Nobody knows for sure, because only a partial jaw bone has been found so far. Scientists can't tell its size from just that piece.3
?When did Afrotapejara live?
It lived during the mid-Cretaceous period, about 106 to 94 million years ago, in what is now Morocco.3
Динозавр эксперттери үчүн
- Илимий аты
- Afrotapejara
- Ат койгон
- Martill et al. 20204
- Топ
- Учуучу сойлоочулар
- Үй-бүлө / клада
- Tapejaridae4
- Классификация
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Тоо тектеринин жашы
- 106 … 94 миллион жыл (Albian / Cenomanian)4
- Өлкөлөр
- Марокко4
- Таш калдык табылгалары
- The Paleobiology Database боюнча 2 жазуу4
- Табылышы
- Afrotapejara was named in 2020 by David Martill and colleagues. The fossil was bought from a fossil trader in Erfoud, Morocco, and came from the Kem Kem beds near Takmout.12
- Дагы эле талаштуу
- Scientists are not sure what Afrotapejara's crest looked like, because only the front of its beak has been found.1
Фактылар кайдан алынат
- A new tapejarid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchoidea) from the mid (pure.port.ac.uk)
- A new tapejarid (Pterosauria, Azhdarchoidea) from the mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Takmout, southern Morocco (sciencedirect.com)
- Afrotapejara (en.wikipedia.org)
- Afrotapejara in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): жашы, жерлери, тоо тектеринин катмарлары, классификациясы.
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