Tendaguripterus recki
By Fabrizio De Rossi, retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.
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Name: Tendaguripterus recki
Name Meaning: Tendaguru Wing
First Described: 1999
Described By: Unwin & Heinrich
Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Archaeopterodactyloidea, Germanodactylidae
Tendaguripterus was a Germanodactylid from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, living from the Kimmeridgian to Tithonian ages of the Late Jurassic, around 152 million years ago. It is known from a jaw and some teeth, and it probably would have been a fairly small pterosaur, with the skull estimated to be only about 20 centimeters long, indicating that it would have had a wingspan of about 1 meter. It may have eaten shellfish, picking them from lagoons and using sharp teeth to pierce their shells.Β
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendaguripterus
http://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/tendaguripterus.html
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