Another reptile groupPterosaurFish-eater
Bennettazhia
The first vertebrates to truly fly, on wings of skin stretched from a hugely long fourth finger. They ranged from sparrow-sized to wingspans of more than 10 metres.
Who it is related to: The closest relatives of the dinosaurs, splitting off in the Triassic, but not dinosaurs, and not the ancestors of birds.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Pterosaurs
- Family
- Azhdarchidae
- When it lived
- 100.5–113.2 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Albian
- Named by
- Nessov, 1991
- Fossil occurrences
- 2 sites
Countries with fossils
- United States
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata