恐龍卡第 0033 張，共 2 027 張

Aerodraco

名字的意思： “air dragon”3

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類白堊紀早期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Aerodraco was a flying reptile that soared over the seas of England about 105 million years ago. It was a pterosaur, not a dinosaur, and it had a long beak full of teeth for catching fish.3 1

趣味小知識：翼龍在恐龍頭上飛來飛去，但牠們是恐龍的親戚，不是恐龍喔。

生存年代

106 到 100 百萬年前3

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Cambridge Greensand, England, United Kingdom3

最高速度

時速約 52 公里（32 英里）

飛行, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Aerodraco 時速約 52 公里 (32 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

Aerodraco was named in 2020 by scientists Holgado and Pegas, who studied old fossils and gave them a new name.3 1

It belonged to a group of pterosaurs called coloborhynchines, which had a bony crest on top of their snouts.1

Its fossils were found in marine rocks, so it probably lived near the coast and flew over the ocean.3

Aerodraco lived during the Late Albian age, about 106 to 100 million years ago.3

The only known species is Aerodraco sedgwickii, which was originally thought to be a different pterosaur.3 1

Aerodraco 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Aerodraco 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

你們都在問

關於 Aerodraco 最常被問的問題

?How big was Aerodraco?

Its exact size is unknown because only a partial snout has been found, but it was probably a medium-sized pterosaur with a wingspan of a few metres.2 1

?What did Aerodraco eat?

It ate fish, using its long beak full of teeth to catch them near the coast.2

?When did Aerodraco live?

It lived about 105 to 100 million years ago, during the Late Albian and Cenomanian ages.2 1

給恐龍專家

學名: Aerodraco
命名者: Holgado and Pegas 20203
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Anhangueridae3
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
岩石的年代: 106 到 100 百萬年 (Albian)3
岩層: West Melbury Marly Chalk3
國家: 英國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: Aerodraco was named in 2020 by Borja Holgado and Rodrigo V. Pêgas, who re-examined a fossil that had been called Pterodactylus sedgwickii since 1859.3 1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure about the exact size of Aerodraco because only a few bone fragments have been found.3