Sinomacrops
Sinomacrops was a tiny flying reptile that lived about 160 million years ago. It had huge eyes and a short, rounded snout, and it probably fluttered between trees catching insects.1
Yabayeho ryari?
Yanganaga ite?
Yari ndende ite?
Sinomacrops yanganaga ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ibarirwa muri mushakisha yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihutaga ite?
Utuntu dushimishije
Sinomacrops is known from a single crushed skeleton, but it is the first anurognathid skull seen from the side.1
Its lower leg bone, the tibiotarsus, was twice as long as its thigh bone, which is unusual.1
It had three closely spaced teeth in the front of its upper jaw, a feature unique to this species.1
Sinomacrops is the second anurognathid pterosaur found in the Tiaojishan Formation in China.1
Its closest relative is Batrachognathus, and together they form a group called Batrachognathinae.1
The fossil was found in rocks that are between 165 and 155 million years old, from the Middle to Late Jurassic.3

Ibibazo bibazwa cyane kuri Sinomacrops
?Was Sinomacrops a dinosaur?
No, Sinomacrops was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but it was not a dinosaur itself.2
?How big was Sinomacrops?
It was tiny, but the exact size is not known because only one crushed skeleton has been found. It was small enough to flutter between trees.2
?What did Sinomacrops eat?
It probably ate insects. Its short snout and teeth suggest it caught bugs while flying, like other anurognathid pterosaurs.1
?When did Sinomacrops live?
It lived about 164 to 158 million years ago, during the Middle to Late Jurassic period.2
Gusenya ibinyoma
Ibivugwa: Some people think Sinomacrops was a dinosaur because it lived with dinosaurs.
Ukuri: Sinomacrops was a pterosaur, a flying reptile, not a dinosaur.1
Ku bazobereye muri dinozore
- Izina rya siyansi
- Sinomacrops
- Yiswe na
- Wei et al. 20213
- Itsinda
- Ibikururanda biguruka
- Umuryango / ishami
- Anurognathidae3
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Pterosauria3
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 165 kugeza 155 (Callovian / Oxfordian)3
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Tiaojishan3
- Ibihugu
- Ubushinwa3
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 1 muri The Paleobiology Database3
- Ivumburwa
- Scientists named Sinomacrops in 2021 after studying a fossil found at Mutoudeng in China. The species name bondei honors paleontologist Niels Bonde.1
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists still debate exactly where anurognathids like Sinomacrops fit in the pterosaur family tree, and whether they lived mostly in trees.1
Aho amakuru yakuwe
- Sinomacrops bondei , a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Sinomacrops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sinomacrops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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