Simurghia
Simurghia was a big flying reptile that lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. It had a wingspan as wide as a small car and probably soared over the ocean hunting for fish.1
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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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Simurghia was named in 2018 along with two other pterosaurs from the same area: Alcione and Barbaridactylus.1
Its name comes from the Simurgh, a giant bird-like creature in Persian myths.1
Simurghia lived about 66 million years ago, just before the big extinction that killed the dinosaurs.1
All known fossils of Simurghia were found during a three-year dig that uncovered about 200 pterosaur specimens.1
Simurghia was much bigger than its close relative Alcione, weighing about 560 percent more.1
The type specimen is just a single upper arm bone (humerus), but it is enough to tell this was a distinct species.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Simurghia
?How big was Simurghia?
Simurghia had a wingspan of about 5 metres (16 feet), as wide as a small car. It weighed about 6.6 times as much as its relative Alcione.1
?What did Simurghia eat?
Simurghia was a fish-eater. It likely soared over the ocean and hunted for fish.12
?When did Simurghia live?
Simurghia lived about 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, just before the big extinction that killed the dinosaurs.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Simurghia
- E rehilwe ke
- Longrich et al. 20183
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tse fofang
- Lelapa / leloko
- Aponyctosauria3
- Tlhophiso
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 (Maastrichtian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Couche III3
- Dinaha
- Moroko3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Simurghia was named in 2018 by paleontologists Nicholas Longrich, David Martill, and Brian Andres. The fossils were found in phosphate mines in Morocco.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure if a pterosaur from Brazil called 'Nyctosaurus' lamegoi is also a species of Simurghia.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Simurghia (en.wikipedia.org)
- A Dinosaur A Day: Simurghia (a-dinosaur-a-day.com)
- Simurghia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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