Ferrodraco
Ferrodraco was a flying reptile that soared over ancient Australia about 95 million years ago. It had a wingspan as wide as a small car and used its long, spike‑shaped teeth to catch fish.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e le boima hakae?
Ferrodraco e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
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
Ferrodraco is the most complete pterosaur ever found in Australia. Most Australian pterosaurs are known from just a few bones.1
Its name means 'iron dragon' because the fossil bones were preserved in a hard, iron‑rich rock called ironstone.1
Ferrodraco had a crest on its upper jaw and lower jaw, and its teeth were shaped like spikes with round bases.1
The first tooth on each side of the upper and lower jaws was smaller than the teeth behind it. The fourth through seventh teeth were also smaller than the third and eighth teeth.1
Ferrodraco lived during the Cenomanian to early Turonian period, about 100 to 90 million years ago. It might have been one of the last of its group, the anhanguerians, to survive.1
The fossil was discovered in April 2017 by one of the scientists who later described it, while exploring a site in Queensland called the 'Pterosaur Site'.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Ferrodraco
?How big was Ferrodraco?
Ferrodraco had a wingspan of about 4 metres (13 feet) and weighed about 10 kilograms (22 pounds).21
?What did Ferrodraco eat?
Ferrodraco ate fish. It had long, spike-shaped teeth that were perfect for catching fish.12
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Ferrodraco
- E rehilwe ke
- Pentland et al. 20193
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Anhangueridae3
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 90 (Cenomanian / Turonian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Winton3
- Dinaha
- Australia3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Ferrodraco was named and described in 2019 by Adele Pentland and her team. The species name 'lentoni' honors Graham 'Butch' Lenton, a former mayor of Winton who supported the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure whether Ferrodraco and other anhanguerians survived the end of the Cenomanian period in Australia, or if they died out earlier elsewhere.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Ferrodraco lentoni gen. et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton Formation (Cenomanian, lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- Ferrodraco (en.wikipedia.org)
- Ferrodraco in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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