Chaoyangopterus
Chaoyangopterus was a flying reptile that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous. It had a long, toothless beak and a wingspan about as wide as a small car. It probably swooped down to catch fish from lakes.15
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Sa i madh ishte Chaoyangopterus krahasuar me TY?
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Chaoyangopterus had no teeth, just a sharp beak like a bird.1
Its skull was about 27 centimeters (11 inches) long, about the size of a ruler.1
It still had four fingers on each hand, unlike some other pterosaurs that lost fingers.1
Its legs were longer and its wings shorter compared to its relative Nyctosaurus.1
Scientists first thought Chaoyangopterus was a nyctosaurid, but later placed it in its own family, Chaoyangopteridae.1

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Shkatërruesi i miteve
Miti: Some people think Chaoyangopterus had teeth like many other pterosaurs.
E vërteta: Chaoyangopterus was completely toothless, with a beak like a modern bird.1
Për ekspertët e dinozaurëve
- Emri shkencor
- Chaoyangopterus
- Emërtuar nga
- Wang and Zhou 20035
- Grupi
- Zvarranikët fluturues
- Familja / klada
- Azhdarchidae5
- Klasifikimi
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea > Azhdarchidae5
- Mosha e shkëmbinjve
- 121 deri në 113 milionë vjet (Aptian)5
- Formacionet shkëmbore
- Jiufotang5
- Vendet
- Kina5
- Gjetjet fosile
- 2 në The Paleobiology Database5
- Zbulimi
- Chaoyangopterus was named in 2003 by Chinese paleontologists Wang Xiaolin and Zhou Zhonghe. The species name zhangi honors journalist Zhang Wanlian for protecting fossil sites. The skeleton was found in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China.12
- Ende i diskutueshëm
- Scientists still debate whether Chaoyangopterus was a fish-eater or a ground-feeding omnivore, and its exact place in the pterosaur family tree is not settled.15
Nga vijnë faktet
- Chaoyangopterus (en.wikipedia.org)
- TWO NEW PTERODACTYLOID PTEROSAURS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS JIUFOTANG FORMATION OF WESTERN LIAONING,CHINA (vertpala.ac.cn)
- The PTEROSAURIA - Chaoyangopterus (web.archive.org)
- Chaoyangopterus - Thomas Henry Huxley Paleozoological Gardens (hpz.zhejiangopterus.org)
- Chaoyangopterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mosha, vendet, formacionet shkëmbore, klasifikimi.
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