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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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

Eyona mibuzo ibuzwa kakhulu: 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
Kwiingcali zeedayinaso
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Simurghia
- Inikwe igama ngu:
- Longrich et al. 20183
- Iqela
- Izirhubuluzi ezibhabhayo
- Usapho / iclade
- Aponyctosauria3
- Ukuhlelwa
- Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
- Ubudala bamatye
- 72 ukuya ku-66 izigidi zeminyaka (Maastrichtian)3
- Izakhiwo zamatye
- Couche III3
- Amazwe
- iMorocco3
- Iirekhodi zeefosili
- 1 kwi-Paleobiology Database3
- Ukufunyanwa
- Simurghia was named in 2018 by paleontologists Nicholas Longrich, David Martill, and Brian Andres. The fossils were found in phosphate mines in Morocco.1
- Kusaxoxwa ngayo
- Scientists are not sure if a pterosaur from Brazil called 'Nyctosaurus' lamegoi is also a species of Simurghia.1
Apho iinyani zivela khona
- Simurghia (en.wikipedia.org)
- A Dinosaur A Day: Simurghia (a-dinosaur-a-day.com)
- Simurghia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ubudala, iindawo, izakhiwo zamatye, ukuhlelwa.
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