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Gallodactylus

名字的意思： “rooster finger”3

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類侏羅紀晚期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Gallodactylus was a flying reptile that lived near the sea. It had a long beak and probably scooped up fish for dinner. It was not a dinosaur, but a pterosaur.3

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

149 到 145 百萬年前3

侏羅紀晚期

化石發現地

Canjuers-Les Bessons quarry, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France1

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)

Gallodactylus 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

Gallodactylus lived about 149 to 145 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.1

Its name means 'rooster finger', because scientists thought its wing finger looked like a rooster's toe.3

Only one species is known: Gallodactylus canjuersensis.1

The only fossil of Gallodactylus is a partial skeleton found in a limestone quarry in France.1

Some scientists think Gallodactylus might actually be the same animal as Cycnorhamphus.1

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

?How big was Gallodactylus?

No exact size is given in the sources, but it was a medium sized pterosaur with a wingspan estimated at about 1.5 metres (5 feet).2 3

?Did Gallodactylus have teeth?

Yes, it had peg-like teeth at the tips of its jaws, which were blunter and stouter in older individuals.2

?What did Gallodactylus eat?

It was a piscivore, meaning it ate fish, and may also have used its unusual jaws to crush hard invertebrates like mollusks.3 2

?Is Gallodactylus the same as Cycnorhamphus?

Many scientists think so. In 1996, it was reclassified as Cycnorhamphus canjuersensis, and later studies suggested the two species might be the same animal.3 2

給恐龍專家

學名: Gallodactylus
命名者: Fabre 19763
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Lophocratia3
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea3
岩石的年代: 149 到 145 百萬年 (Tithonian)3
國家: 法國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: Gallodactylus was named by French paleontologist Fabre in 1976, based on a partial skeleton found at the Canjuers-Les Bessons quarry in France.3 1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if Gallodactylus is a separate genus or if it should be called Cycnorhamphus.1