Inabtanin
Inabtanin was a flying reptile that lived about 66 million years ago. It had a wingspan as wide as a small car and probably flapped its wings like a bird to fly.12
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
Mapheo a yona a ne a pharaletse hakae?
mapheo a pharaletse jwaloka dibaesekele tse 3 ka mola⚽e ne e ka fofa ho tshela lebala lohle la bolo ya maoto ka metsotswana e 5.4Inabtanin 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
Inabtanin is one of the most complete pterosaurs ever found in the Afro-Arabia region, which includes parts of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.1
Its name comes from 'Tal Inab', meaning 'grape hill' in Arabic, because the hill near where it was found looks like a grape.1
Scientists used CT scans to look inside its wing bones and discovered a crisscross pattern of tiny struts, similar to bones of flapping birds today.12
Inabtanin lived at the same time and place as the giant pterosaur Arambourgiania, which had a wingspan of about 10 metres (33 feet).12
It was a toothless pterosaur, meaning it had a beak with no teeth.1
Inabtanin was a non-azhdarchid azhdarchoid, meaning it was a close relative of the giant azhdarchids but not part of that group.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Inabtanin
?How big was Inabtanin?
It had a wingspan of about 5.35 metres (17.6 feet), which is as wide as a small car.1
?Did Inabtanin have teeth?
No, it had a toothless beak.1
?How did Inabtanin fly?
It probably flapped its wings like a bird, because the inside of its wing bones looks like those of flapping birds.12
?When did Inabtanin live?
It lived about 66 million years ago, at the very end of the Cretaceous Period.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Inabtanin
- E rehilwe ke
- Rosenbach et al. 20244
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Azhdarchoidea4
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 (Maastrichtian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Muwaqqar4
- Dinaha
- Jordane4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Inabtanin was named in 2024 by Rosenbach and colleagues based on a partial skeleton found in phosphate mines in Jordan. The fossils were first reported in 2018.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly where Inabtanin fits in the pterosaur family tree, because it has a mix of features from different groups.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Inabtanin (en.wikipedia.org)
- New pterosaur remains from the Late Cretaceous of Afro-Arabia provide insight into flight capacity of large pterosaurs: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 44 , No 1 - Get Access (tandfonline.com)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Inabtanin in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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