Eotephradactylus
Eotephradactylus was a seagull-sized flying reptile that lived about 209 million years ago in what is now Arizona, USA. It had a long jaw full of teeth and probably ate fish with tough, armor-like scales.12
ඒක ජීවත් වුණේ කවදද?
ඒක කොච්චර වේගවත්ද?
විනෝද කරුණු
Eotephradactylus is one of the oldest pterosaurs ever found in North America.2
Its jawbone was discovered inside a block of rock that was being prepared in a lab, not in the field.1
The tips of its teeth were worn down, which suggests it chewed on hard fish scales or shells.1
It lived in a hot, drying part of the supercontinent Pangaea, near the equator.1
The same bonebed where Eotephradactylus was found also contained one of the world's oldest turtle fossils.2
Its name comes from Greek words meaning 'dawn', 'ash', and 'wing', because it was found in volcanic ash.1

Eotephradactylus ගැන වැඩියෙන්ම අහන ප්රශ්න
?How big was Eotephradactylus?
About the size of a small seagull. Its jaw was about 4.3 cm long, and its wingspan was probably around 1 m.3
?What did Eotephradactylus eat?
It probably ate hard-shelled invertebrates or fish with tough, armor-like scales. The tips of its teeth were worn down from chewing.31
?Is Eotephradactylus a dinosaur?
No, it is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs. It is not a dinosaur.3
?When did Eotephradactylus live?
It lived about 209 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period. That is around 7 million years before the end-Triassic extinction.1
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- විද්යාත්මක නාමය
- Eotephradactylus
- නම් කළේ
- Kligman et al. 20254
- කාණ්ඩය
- පියාඹන උරගයෝ
- පවුල / ක්ලේඩය
- Pterosauria4
- වර්ගීකරණය
- Pterosauria4
- පාෂාණවල වයස
- වසර මිලියන 227 සිට 206 දක්වා (Norian)4
- පාෂාණ සංයුති
- Chinle4
- රටවල්
- ඇමරිකාව4
- පොසිල වාර්තා
- The Paleobiology Database හි 14
- සොයාගැනීම
- Eotephradactylus was named by Ben Kligman and colleagues in 2025. The specimen was discovered by Suzanne McIntire while she was preparing a rock block in the lab at Petrified Forest National Park.12
- තාමත් වාද විවාද
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Eotephradactylus was, because only its jawbone has been found so far.1
කරුණු එන්නේ කොහෙන්ද
- Unusual bone bed reveals a vertebrate community with pterosaurs and turtles in equatorial Pangaea before the end-Triassic extinction - PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- si.edu (si.edu)
- Eotephradactylus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Eotephradactylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): වයස, ස්ථාන, පාෂාණ සංයුති, වර්ගීකරණය.
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