恐龍卡第 1842 張，共 2 027 張

Tupandactylus

名字的意思： “Tupã finger, after the Tupi thunder god”1

吃：植物飛行爬蟲類白堊紀早期嚴格來說不是恐龍

Tupandactylus was a flying reptile with a huge, colorful crest on its head. It lived in what is now Brazil about 115 million years ago and probably ate plants like a flying fruit-lover.1 2

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

120 到 113 百萬年前5

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Crato Formation, Ceará, Brazil1 2

翼展

2.7 到 4 m (8.9 到 13 ft)1

高度

1.5 m (4.9 ft)1

最高速度

時速約 63 公里（39 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？

牠有多高？

翅膀跟 2 台腳踏車排成一排一樣寬能在 6 秒內飛越一整座足球場

Tupandactylus 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)

Tupandactylus 時速約 63 公里 (39 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

Tupandactylus had a giant head crest made of soft tissue and supported by bone spines. In T. imperator the crest was round, while in T. navigans it was tall and vertical.1

Its name comes from Tupã, the Tupi thunder god, and daktylos, the Greek word for finger.1

Tupandactylus probably spent a lot of time on the ground and only flew short distances, because its big crest made flying harder.1

The first fossil of Tupandactylus was a skull and partial lower jaw found in the Crato Formation of Brazil.1

Scientists think Tupandactylus may have been a terrestrial forager, walking around on the ground to find food.1

Tupandactylus had a fifth toe on its foot with a single bone, a feature seen in some other azhdarchoid pterosaurs.3

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

?How big was Tupandactylus?

Tupandactylus imperator had a wingspan of about 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13.1 feet) and stood about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) tall to the tip of its crest. The smaller species, T. navigans, had a wingspan of about 2.7 metres (8.9 feet).1 4

?Why did Tupandactylus have a crest?

Scientists think the crest was used for social or sexual display, like a peacock's tail. It was made of soft tissue and bone, and it was so big it may have made flying harder.1 4

?What did Tupandactylus eat?

Tupandactylus probably ate plants, like fruit, and may have used its long neck to reach food from higher bushes. Some fossils show plant material near its skull, hinting it was a herbivore.1 4

?Was Tupandactylus a dinosaur?

No, Tupandactylus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur. It is closely related to dinosaurs but belongs to a separate group.1

?When did Tupandactylus live?

Tupandactylus lived about 112 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period, in what is now Brazil.1

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think Tupandactylus was a dinosaur.

真相： Tupandactylus was a pterosaur, a flying reptile that is not a dinosaur.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Tupandactylus
命名者: Kellner and Campos 20075
類群: 飛行爬蟲類
科 / 演化支: Tapejaridae5
分類: Pterosauria > Pterodactyloidea5
岩石的年代: 120 到 113 百萬年 (Aptian)5
岩層: Crato5
國家: 巴西5
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 3 筆5
發現: Tupandactylus was first described in 1997 as a species of Tapejara by D. A. Campos and Alexander W. A. Kellner. In 2007, Campos and Kellner gave it its own genus name Tupandactylus.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if Tupandactylus imperator and Tupandactylus navigans are two different species or just males and females of the same species.1