Cretornis
Cretornis was a flying reptile that lived about 92 million years ago. It had a wingspan as wide as a bicycle is long and probably ate fish. Its fossils were found in the Czech Republic.13
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E ne e le kgolo hakae?
Mapheo a yona a ne a pharaletse hakae?
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E ne e le lebelo hakae?
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Cretornis was first thought to be a bird, not a pterosaur. The scientist who named it, Antonín Frič, called it a 'chalk bird' because he thought it was a toothed bird like Ichthyornis.1
The fossils were found by a woman named Mrs. Tomková, who worked at a gambling table in Choceň. She told a local pharmacist, František Hlaváč, about the bones, and he collected them.1
Cretornis is the only pterosaur ever found in the Czech Republic. Its bones come from a sandstone quarry that was being used to get gravel for road repairs.12
The upper arm bone (humerus) of Cretornis is only 76 millimeters long, which is about the length of three fingers side by side.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Cretornis
?How big was Cretornis?
Its wingspan was about 1.5 to 1.6 metres (4.9 to 5.2 feet), which is as wide as a bicycle. Its upper arm bone was only 76 millimetres (3 inches) long.12
?What did Cretornis eat?
It probably ate fish, like many other pterosaurs that lived near the sea.1
?Is Cretornis a dinosaur?
No, Cretornis is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived during the time of dinosaurs, but it is not a dinosaur itself.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Cretornis
- E rehilwe ke
- Fritsch 18813
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Azhdarchoidea3
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 94 ho isa ho 90 (Turonian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Jizera3
- Dinaha
- Czechia3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Cretornis was named in 1881 by Czech paleontologist Antonín Frič. He first thought the bones were from a bird, but later scientists realized it was a pterosaur.13
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists still debate whether Cretornis was an azhdarchoid pterosaur or a nyctosaurid. Its exact place in the pterosaur family tree is not settled.12
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Cretornis (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cretornis hlavaci Frič, 1881 from the Upper Cretaceous of Czech Republic (Pterosauria, Azhdarchoidea) - ScienceDirect (sciencedirect.com)
- Cretornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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