恐龍卡第 0144 張，共 2 027 張

Aralazhdarcho

名字的意思： “Aral Sea azhdarchid”1

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類白堊紀晚期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Aralazhdarcho was a flying reptile that lived in what is now Kazakhstan. It had a long neck and no teeth, and it probably ate fish. It was a type of pterosaur called an azhdarchid.1 4

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

86 到 72 百萬年前4

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Shakh-Shakh locality, Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan1 2

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)

Aralazhdarcho 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

Aralazhdarcho is known from only a few bones, including a neck vertebra and part of a wing finger.1

It lived during the Santonian to early Campanian ages of the Late Cretaceous, about 85 to 72 million years ago.1 4

The name Aralazhdarcho combines the Aral Sea and the related pterosaur Azhdarcho.1

Some scientists think that another pterosaur called Samrukia might actually be the same as Aralazhdarcho.1

Aralazhdarcho was toothless, like other azhdarchid pterosaurs.1

Its fossils were found in the Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan.1 4

Aralazhdarcho 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Aralazhdarcho 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 Aralazhdarcho 最常被問的問題

?How big was Aralazhdarcho?

Nobody knows for sure. Only a few bones have been found, so its exact size is unknown.1

?What did Aralazhdarcho eat?

It probably ate fish. It had no teeth and lived near a marine bay, so it likely caught fish with its beak.1 3

?Is Aralazhdarcho a dinosaur?

No, it is a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Aralazhdarcho
命名者: Averianov 20074
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Azhdarchidae4
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea > Azhdarchidae4
岩石的年代: 86 到 72 百萬年 (Santonian / Campanian)4
岩層: Bostobe4
國家: 哈薩克4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: Aralazhdarcho was named in 2007 by Russian paleontologist Alexander Averianov. The first fossil, a neck vertebra, was found in the 1950s and later described in 2004.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Aralazhdarcho was, because only a few bones have been found.1