Liaoxipterus
Liaoxipterus was a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. It had a short jaw with small, peg-like teeth, and it may have used its long tongue to catch insects, just like a chameleon!12
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
Liaoxipterus was the first istiodactylid pterosaur found in China, but scientists first thought it was a different kind of pterosaur called a ctenochasmatid.2
Its lower jaw was about 161 millimetres long, which is shorter than a ruler, and it had about 26 teeth in total.12
The hyoid bone in its throat was Y-shaped and very long, similar to a chameleon's, which helps the tongue shoot out to catch prey.2
Liaoxipterus lived alongside other pterosaurs like Nurhachius and Istiodactylus sinensis in the same ancient environment.2
Its teeth were all the same shape, with roots longer than the crowns, and they were flattened from side to side.2
Scientists think the wide tip of its lower jaw might have been different from other pterosaurs because of sexual differences, like males and females looking different.2

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Liaoxipterus was a dinosaur.
Boammaaruri: Liaoxipterus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Liaoxipterus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Dong and Lü 20053
- Setlhopha
- Digagabi tse di fofang
- Lelapa / clade
- Istiodactylidae3
- Thulaganyo
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 121 go ya go 113 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Aptian)3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Jiufotang3
- Dinaga
- Tšhaena3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- Liaoxipterus was named by Dong Zhiming and Lü Junchang in 2005, based on a nearly complete lower jaw found in the Jiufotang Formation in China.13
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists still debate whether Liaoxipterus is the same as another pterosaur called Nurhachius, because some studies say they are different, while others suggest they might be the same.12
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Liaoxipterus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Restudy of Liaoxipterus (Istiodactylidae: Pterosauria), with comments on the Chinese istiodactylid pterosaurs (epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de)
- Liaoxipterus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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