Ikrandraco
Ikrandraco was a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. It had a long, low skull and a sharp blade-like crest on its lower jaw, unlike any other pterosaur. Scientists think it skimmed over lakes to catch fish, maybe even using a throat pouch like a pelican.2
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 4 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlengštelele jwaloka dibanana tse 11 di behilwe ka molaā½e ne e ka fofa ho tshela lebala lohle la bolo ya maoto ka metsotswana e 6Ikrandraco 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
Ikrandraco's lower jaw had a deep, blade-like crest with a hook at the back. No other pterosaur has this feature.2
Its skull was very low and long, only about 18.7% as tall as it was long.2
Ikrandraco lived alongside other fish-eating pterosaurs like Liaoningopterus and Guidraco, but they had different teeth and hunting styles.2
The name Ikrandraco comes from the fictional 'ikran' creatures in the movie Avatar, which also have a head crest.1
Two fossils of Ikrandraco have been found, both from the same rock formation in China.2

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Ikrandraco
?How big was Ikrandraco?
Its skull was about 286.5 millimetres (11.28 inches) long. The full size of the animal is not known from the fossils found so far.1
?What did Ikrandraco eat?
It ate fish. Scientists think it skimmed over lakes to catch them, and it may have stored fish in a throat pouch like a pelican.13
?Did Ikrandraco have feathers?
No, Ikrandraco was a pterosaur, a flying reptile. Pterosaurs are not dinosaurs and they had hair like structures called pycnofibres instead of feathers.1
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Ikrandraco was a dinosaur.
Nnete: Ikrandraco was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Ikrandraco
- E rehilwe ke
- Wang et al. 20144
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Pteranodontoidea4
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 121 ho isa ho 113 (Aptian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Jiufotang4
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Ikrandraco was named in 2014 by Wang Xiaolin and colleagues, based on a partial skeleton found in Liaoning, China. A second skull was also found nearby.21
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure if Ikrandraco really used its crest for skimming or if it had a throat pouch, because no soft tissue is preserved.2
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Ikrandraco (en.wikipedia.org)
- An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- untitled (nature.com)
- Ikrandraco in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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