恐龍卡第 1439 張，共 2 027 張

Plataleorhynchus

名字的意思： “spoonbill snout”1

吃：魚飛行爬蟲類白堊紀早期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Plataleorhynchus was a flying reptile that lived near the coast of what is now England. It had a long, spoon-shaped snout filled with many thin teeth. It used its special beak to scoop up small water animals for dinner.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

143 到 137 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Purbeck Limestone of Dorset, England, near Langton Matravers1 4

翼展

1.5 到 2.6 m (4.9 到 8.5 ft)2 3

最高速度

時速約 53 公里（33 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 1.5 台腳踏車排成一排一樣寬能在 7.1 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Plataleorhynchus 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)

Plataleorhynchus 時速約 53 公里 (33 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

The front of its snout was shaped like a spoon or spatula, and it held 22 narrow teeth that pointed sideways.1

Scientists think its upper jaw had about 76 teeth in total, counting the ones in the preserved part and the missing ones.1

Its skull was at least 40 centimeters (15.75 inches) long, which is about the length of a big ruler.1

It had a horn-covered pad on the roof of its mouth, which may have helped it crush or handle its food.1

Plataleorhynchus lived during the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous periods, about 143 to 137 million years ago.1 4

The only known fossil of this pterosaur is an incomplete upper jaw, which was found in a chalkstone quarry.1

Its name comes from the spoonbill bird, because its snout looks like a spoonbill's beak.1

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

給恐龍專家

學名: Plataleorhynchus
命名者: Howse and Milner 19954
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Lophocratia4
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea4
岩石的年代: 143 到 137 百萬年 (Berriasian)4
國家: 英國4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: The fossil was found in a quarry near Langton Matravers, England, and was bought by the Natural History Museum in 1958. Scientists Stafford Howse and Andrew Milner named it Plataleorhynchus in 1995.1 4
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly how Plataleorhynchus used its spoon-shaped snout and small teeth, because it is different from other similar pterosaurs.1