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Phosphatodraco

名字的意思： “dragon from the phosphates”1

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類白堊紀晚期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Phosphatodraco was a flying reptile that lived right at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It had a long, stiff neck and probably hunted for fish or small animals on land. This pterosaur is one of the last known flying reptiles before the big extinction 66 million years ago.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

72 到 66 百萬年前4

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Ouled Abdoun Phosphatic Basin near Khouribga, Morocco1

翼展

4 到 5 m (13 到 16 ft)1 2 3

最高速度

時速約 69 公里（43 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？

翅膀跟 3 台腳踏車排成一排一樣寬能在 5.5 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Phosphatodraco 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)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

Phosphatodraco 時速約 69 公里 (43 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

酷東西

趣味知識

Phosphatodraco is known from five neck vertebrae and a few other bones, all found together in a phosphate mine.1

It was the first Late Cretaceous pterosaur ever discovered in North Africa.1

Its neck was long and stiff, which may have helped it hunt on land like a stork or ground hornbill.1

Phosphatodraco lived about 66 million years ago, right before the mass extinction that killed off all non-bird dinosaurs and many pterosaurs.1

The fossils were found in a layer of phosphate rock, which is why its name means 'dragon from the phosphates'.1

Scientists think Phosphatodraco was an azhdarchid, a group of pterosaurs that often had very long necks and walked on all fours.1

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

?How big was Phosphatodraco?

Its wingspan was about 5 metres (16 feet) according to one interpretation, or about 4 metres (13 feet) according to another. Scientists disagree because the bones are incomplete.1

?What did Phosphatodraco eat?

It probably ate fish, but some scientists think it also hunted small animals on land, like a stork. The debate is still going on.1 4

?How long was Phosphatodraco's neck?

Its complete neck may have been about 865 millimetres (0.86 metres) long. That is based on the five neck vertebrae that were found.1

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think pterosaurs like Phosphatodraco were dinosaurs.

真相： Pterosaurs were flying reptiles, not dinosaurs. They are a separate group of animals that lived at the same time as dinosaurs.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Phosphatodraco
命名者: Pereda Suberbiola et al. 20034
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Azhdarchidae4
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea > Azhdarchidae4
岩石的年代: 72 到 66 百萬年 (Maastrichtian)4
岩層: Couche III4
國家: 摩洛哥4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 2 筆4
發現: Phosphatodraco was discovered in 2000 by miners in a phosphate quarry in Morocco. It was named and described by paleontologist Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola and colleagues in 2003.1
仍有爭議: Scientists still debate whether azhdarchids like Phosphatodraco mainly ate fish from the water or hunted small animals on land.1