Cimoliopterus
Cimoliopterus was a flying reptile that soared over the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It had a long, toothy snout and a thin crest on its beak. It probably caught fish by swooping down and snatching them from the water.51
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
Mapheo a yona a ne a pharaletse hakae?
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Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Cimoliopterus had a thin crest on the top of its snout that started above the fourth pair of teeth.1
The tip of its snout was small and blunt, and the front of the upper jaw sloped downward at about a 45-degree angle.1
One species, Cimoliopterus dunni, was discovered in Texas and is the first North American record of this pterosaur genus.1
It had at least 26 teeth in its upper jaw, and the first pair pointed more downward than forward.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Cimoliopterus
?How big was Cimoliopterus?
Cimoliopterus cuvieri had a wingspan of about 3.5 metres (11 feet), and Cimoliopterus dunni was similar in size. One Cimoliopterus specimen had a wingspan of about 5 metres (16 feet).3
?What did Cimoliopterus eat?
It probably ate fish. It may have flown over the water and dipped its long jaws in to catch fish with its interlocking teeth.34
?Could Cimoliopterus fly?
Yes, it was a flying reptile. It was probably good at long-distance soaring over oceans, and its fossils are mostly found in marine rocks.3
?Why did Cimoliopterus have a crest?
Scientists are not sure. Some think the crest helped steady its jaws in the water while fishing, but it may have been for display.3
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Cimoliopterus
- E rehilwe ke
- Rodrigues and Kellner 20135
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Pteranodontoidea5
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea5
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 90 (Cenomanian / Turonian)5
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Britton5
- Dinaha
- United Kingdom, Amerika5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 ho The Paleobiology Database5
- Ho sibollwa
- The genus Cimoliopterus was named in 2013 by paleontologists Taissa Rodrigues and Alexander Kellner based on fossils from England. A second species, Cimoliopterus dunni, was described in 2015 by Timothy Myers from a partial snout found in Texas.51
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how large Cimoliopterus grew, because only parts of the skull have been found so far.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 35 , No 6 - Get Access (tandfonline.com)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Cimoliopterus (en.wikipedia.org)
- New North American pterosaur is a Texan -- but flying reptile's closest cousin is English | EurekAlert! (eurekalert.org)
- Cimoliopterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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