Saraikisaurus
Saraikisaurus was a flying reptile that lived at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It soared over what is now Pakistan, hunting fish with its beak-like jaws. Even though it looked like a dinosaur, it was actually a pterosaur, a cousin of the dinosaurs.11
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
Diphuka tsa yona di ne di namegile go le kae?
telele jaaka dikatse tsa mo gae di le 3 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng⚽e ne e ka fofa go kgabaganya lebala lotlhe la kgwele ya dinao mo metsotswaneng e le 9Saraikisaurus e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
Saraikisaurus lived between 72 and 66 million years ago, during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous.1
Its fossils were found in the Vitakri Formation in Pakistan, a rock layer that was once a river floodplain.1
The only known fossil of Saraikisaurus is a lower jaw bone (mandible), which tells scientists it was a fish-eater.1
Saraikisaurus belongs to a group of pterosaurs called Pterodactyloidea, which includes many large, short-tailed flying reptiles.1
The name Saraikisaurus honors the Saraiki people and language of central Pakistan.1
Saraikisaurus was a pterosaur, not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Saraikisaurus
?Is Saraikisaurus a dinosaur?
No, Saraikisaurus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs. It is not a dinosaur.4
?How big was Saraikisaurus?
Scientists are not sure of its full size because only a lower jaw bone has been found. The preserved jaw is about 5.8 cm long, and it was a large pterosaur.3
?What did Saraikisaurus eat?
Saraikisaurus was a fish-eater (piscivore). It used its beak-like jaws with teeth to catch fish.43
?When did Saraikisaurus live?
Saraikisaurus lived at the very end of the Cretaceous Period, between about 72 and 66 million years ago.4
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Saraikisaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Malkani 20144
- Setlhopha
- Digagabi tse di fofang
- Lelapa / clade
- Saraikisauridae4
- Thulaganyo
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 72 go ya go 66 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Maastrichtian)4
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Vitakri4
- Dinaga
- Pakisitane4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- Saraikisaurus was named by Pakistani paleontologist M. Sadiq Malkani in 2014, based on a jaw bone found in the Vitakri Formation of Balochistan, Pakistan.11
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure how big Saraikisaurus was, because only a jaw bone has been found so far.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Saraikisaurus minnhui | Pterosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Pterosaurs from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent; Were Cretaceous pterosaurs tooth bearing? Diagnostic features of Saraikisaurus minhui a toothed, youngest and latest Cretaceous pterosaur (researchgate.net)
- Saraikisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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