Lonchognathosaurus
Lonchognathosaurus was a flying reptile with a long, pointed snout and needle-like teeth. It soared over lakes and rivers in what is now China during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 137 to 100 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a pterosaur, a close cousin of dinosaurs.12
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Its skull was about 400 mm (15.75 inches) long, and the tip of its upper jaw was needle-like.1
It had only eight teeth in each upper jaw, and they were spaced far apart, getting smaller towards the back.13
Unlike many other pterosaurs, the bottom edge of its upper jaw was straight, not curved.1
It had a crest on its head with grooves and a concave front edge.1
In 2022, a wing bone from Siberia was identified as possibly belonging to Lonchognathosaurus, suggesting it lived over a wider area than first thought.1

Shkatërruesi i miteve
Miti: Lonchognathosaurus was a dinosaur.
E vërteta: It was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is a close cousin of dinosaurs, but not a dinosaur itself.1
Për ekspertët e dinozaurëve
- Emri shkencor
- Lonchognathosaurus
- Emërtuar nga
- Maisch et al. 20044
- Grupi
- Zvarranikët fluturues
- Familja / klada
- Dsungaripteridae4
- Klasifikimi
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Mosha e shkëmbinjve
- 137 deri në 100 milionë vjet (Valanginian / Albian)4
- Formacionet shkëmbore
- Lianmuqin4
- Vendet
- Kina4
- Gjetjet fosile
- 1 në The Paleobiology Database4
- Zbulimi
- The first fossil, a partial skull and lower jaws, was found near Urumqi, China, and named by Michael Maisch, Andreas Matzke, and Sun Ge in 2004.13
- Ende i diskutueshëm
- Scientists debate whether Lonchognathosaurus is a valid genus or the same as Dsungaripterus or Noripterus.12
Nga vijnë faktet
- Lonchognathosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
- Lonchognathosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mosha, vendet, formacionet shkëmbore, klasifikimi.
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