Montanazhdarcho was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Montanazhdarcho lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in North America. The first Montanazhdarcho fossil was discovered in 1993.
Quick facts about Montanazhdarcho:
- Existed from Campanian Age to 72.1 million years ago
- Lived in a glacier
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Montanazhdarcho was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- K. Padian and A. J. de Ricqles. 1995. Bone histology determines identification of a new fossil taxon of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria). Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Science, Serie II (320):77-84
