Azhdarcho was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Azhdarcho lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Azhdarcho fossil was discovered in 1984.
Quick facts about Azhdarcho:
- Existed from Turonian Age to 70.6 million years ago
- Lived in a desert
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 4 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Azhdarcho was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. N. Riabinin. 1931. Ostatki dinozavrov iz verkhnego mela nizov'ev r. Amu-Dar'i [On the dinosaurian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the lower parts of the Amu-Daria River]. Zapiski Rossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 60(1):114-118
- J. L. Sanz. 1986. Nouveaux gisements de dinosaures dans le Crétacé espagnol [New dinosaur localities in the Spanish Cretaceous]. Les Dinosaures de La Chine à La France, Colloque International de Paléontologie, Toulouse, France, 2-6 Septembre 1985; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse
- L. A. Nessov. 1995. Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
