Barbosania was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Barbosania lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in South America. The first Barbosania fossil was discovered in 2011.
Quick facts about Barbosania:
- Existed from 122.46 million years ago to Albian Age
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Barbosania was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- L. I. Price. 1971. A presença de Pterosauria no Cretáceo Inferior da Chapada do Araripe, Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 43:451-461
- B. A. R. Mohr and H. Eklund. 2003. Araripia florifera, a magnoliid angiosperm from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation (Brazil). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 126:279-292
