Alcione
Alcione was a flying reptile that lived near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It had short, strong wings and probably flew fast over the sea. It may have dived into the water like a kingfisher to catch fish.1
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Alcione is the first nyctosaurid pterosaur ever found from the very end of the Cretaceous period in Africa.1
Its arm and hand bones were short and thick, which gave it a smaller wingspan than other nyctosaurids. This may have helped it fly fast or dive into water.1
The upper arm bone (humerus) of Alcione had a hatchet-shaped crest for muscle attachment, a clue that it was a nyctosaurid.1
Alcione lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage. That is just before the big extinction that killed the non-bird dinosaurs.2
Scientists found Alcione in the same phosphate mines that have produced many other pterosaurs, like Phosphatodraco, and marine reptiles.1
Alcione was a small pterosaur compared to some of its giant relatives. Its short wings suggest it did not soar like a frigatebird but flapped more often.1

Mpo na bayebi ya badino
- Nkombo ya siansi
- Alcione
- Nkombo epesamaki na
- Longrich et al. 20185
- Lisanga
- Bareptile oyo bapumbwaka
- Libota / klade
- Aponyctosauria5
- Klasifikasio
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea5
- Mbula ya mabanga
- mbula milio 72 kino 66 (Maastrichtian)5
- Milongo ya mabanga
- Couche III5
- Bikolo
- Maroke5
- Bafosile oyo ekomami
- 1 na The Paleobiology Database5
- Ntango bamonaki yango
- Alcione was named in 2018 by Nicholas Longrich and colleagues. The first fossils were found in the Couche III layer at Sidi Daoui, Morocco, in a phosphate mine.21
- Naino bazali kowelana
- Scientists are not sure whether Alcione used its short wings for fast flapping flight or for plunge-diving into the sea after fish.1
Esika makambo euti
- Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary | PLOS Biology (journals.plos.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Alcione elainus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Alcione elainus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Alcione in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.
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