恐龍卡第 1076 張，共 2 027 張

Lonchodectes

名字的意思： “lance biter”1

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類白堊紀早期到白堊紀晚期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Lonchodectes was a flying reptile with long, narrow jaws that worked like a pair of sugar tongs. It snapped up fish from the sea with its many small, sharp teeth. This pterosaur lived about 94 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous.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

113 到 90 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期到白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

England, mostly around Kent, and the Russian Federation1 4

翼展

2 m (6.6 ft)3

最高速度

時速約 48 公里（30 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

牠有多大？

牠的翅膀有多寬？

跟 4 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長能在 7.9 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Lonchodectes 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

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)

Lonchodectes 時速約 48 公里 (30 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

Lonchodectes had jaws that were flattened from top to bottom, like a pair of sugar tongs with teeth.1

The name Lonchodectes means 'lance biter' because of its long, pointed jaws.1

Many fossils of Lonchodectes are just jaw fragments, so scientists are not sure exactly what the whole animal looked like.1

Lonchodectes belonged to a group of pterosaurs called lonchodectids, which are known from the mid-Cretaceous of England, China, and Russia.2

The type species, Lonchodectes compressirostris, was first named in 1851 as a species of Pterodactylus by Richard Owen.1

Lonchodectes probably had a crest on its lower jaw, like its close relatives.1

Lonchodectes 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Lonchodectes 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。

迷思破解王

迷思： Lonchodectes is sometimes thought to be a dinosaur.

真相： Lonchodectes was a pterosaur, a flying reptile, not a dinosaur.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Lonchodectes
命名者: Hooley 19144
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Ornithocheiroidea4
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
岩石的年代: 113 到 90 百萬年 (Albian / Turonian)4
岩層: West Melbury Marly Chalk, Gault, Melovatka4
國家: 英國, 俄羅斯4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 9 筆4
發現: The first fossils of Lonchodectes were found in the Upper Chalk of Kent, England. Richard Owen named the type species Pterodactylus compressirostris in 1851, and Reginald Hooley gave it the name Lonchodectes in 1914.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure how many species belong to Lonchodectes, because most fossils are just small jaw pieces.1