Sinomacrops
Sinomacrops was a tiny flying reptile that lived about 160 million years ago. It had huge eyes and a short, rounded snout, and it probably fluttered between trees catching insects.1
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Naka la réyoon?
Naka la guddoon?
Naka la Sinomacrops réyoon, bu ñu ko méngalee ak YAW?
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Sinomacrops is known from a single crushed skeleton, but it is the first anurognathid skull seen from the side.1
Its lower leg bone, the tibiotarsus, was twice as long as its thigh bone, which is unusual.1
It had three closely spaced teeth in the front of its upper jaw, a feature unique to this species.1
Sinomacrops is the second anurognathid pterosaur found in the Tiaojishan Formation in China.1
Its closest relative is Batrachognathus, and together they form a group called Batrachognathinae.1
The fossil was found in rocks that are between 165 and 155 million years old, from the Middle to Late Jurassic.3

Laaj yi ñu gën a laaj ci Sinomacrops
?Was Sinomacrops a dinosaur?
No, Sinomacrops was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, but it was not a dinosaur itself.2
?How big was Sinomacrops?
It was tiny, but the exact size is not known because only one crushed skeleton has been found. It was small enough to flutter between trees.2
?What did Sinomacrops eat?
It probably ate insects. Its short snout and teeth suggest it caught bugs while flying, like other anurognathid pterosaurs.1
?When did Sinomacrops live?
It lived about 164 to 158 million years ago, during the Middle to Late Jurassic period.2
Ku tas léeb yu dul dëgg
Léeb: Some people think Sinomacrops was a dinosaur because it lived with dinosaurs.
Dëgg: Sinomacrops was a pterosaur, a flying reptile, not a dinosaur.1
Ngir ñi xam dino lool
- Turu xam-xam
- Sinomacrops
- Ku ko tudde
- Wei et al. 20213
- Kurél
- Reptil yuy naaw
- Njaboot / klad
- Anurognathidae3
- Klasifikasiyoŋ
- Pterosauria3
- Màggaayu doj yi
- 165 ba 155 milyoŋ at (Callovian / Oxfordian)3
- Formasiyoŋi doj
- Tiaojishan3
- Réew yi
- Siin3
- Fosil yu ñu gis
- 1 ci The Paleobiology Database3
- Gisees
- Scientists named Sinomacrops in 2021 after studying a fossil found at Mutoudeng in China. The species name bondei honors paleontologist Niels Bonde.1
- Ñu ngi koy werante ba tey
- Scientists still debate exactly where anurognathids like Sinomacrops fit in the pterosaur family tree, and whether they lived mostly in trees.1
Fa xibaar yi jóge
- Sinomacrops bondei , a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Sinomacrops (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sinomacrops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): at, béréb yi, formasiyoŋi doj, klasifikasiyoŋ.
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