Pterorhynchus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Pterorhynchus lived during the Late Jurassic and resided in Asia. The first Pterorhynchus fossil was discovered in 2002.
Quick facts about Pterorhynchus:
- Existed from 164.7 million years ago to Oxfordian Age
- Lived in a ridge
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Pterorhynchus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- C.-F. Zhou and S. Wu. 2013. A Jurassic mammaliaform and the earliest mammalian evolutionary adaptations. Nature 500:163-167
