Liaodactylus
Liaodactylus was an early pterosaur that used its long jaws like a strainer. It had more than 150 thin, comb-like teeth to catch tiny creatures in the water. This flying reptile lived about 160 million years ago in what is now China.1
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Liaodactylus is the oldest known filter-feeding pterosaur, living about 160 million years ago in the Late Jurassic.1
Its skull was only 133 mm long, but it held 152 teeth in total, arranged like a comb to trap food.1
The name Liaodactylus means 'Liaoning finger', after the province in China where it was found.1
Liaodactylus belonged to a group called Ctenochasmatidae, which were all filter-feeders with long snouts and many teeth.1
This pterosaur lived alongside small dinosaurs, mammals, and salamanders in the Yanliao Biota of China.1
Liaodactylus had a large opening in its skull called a nasoantorbital fenestra, which is a feature of advanced pterosaurs.1

Wothetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano: Some people think all pterosaurs ate fish or meat.
Zoona: Liaodactylus was a filter-feeder, straining tiny creatures from water with its comb-like teeth, not catching fish.1
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Liaodactylus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Zhou et al. 20173
- Gulu
- Zokwawa zouluka
- Banja / kladi
- Ctenochasmatidae3
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 162 mpaka 155 miliyoni (Oxfordian)3
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Tiaojishan3
- Mayiko
- China3
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
- Kupezeka
- Liaodactylus was named in 2017 by Zhou and colleagues based on a nearly complete skull and jaws found at Daxishan in Liaoning, China.31
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are not sure about the exact size of Liaodactylus because only its skull and neck bones have been found.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea - PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Liaodactylus primus | Pterosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Liaodactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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