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Dino Codex
Another reptile groupPterosaurFish-eater

Serradraco

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
Lonchodectidae
When it lived
132.6–139.1 million years ago
Geologic stages
Berriasian – Valanginian
Named by
Rigal et al., 2017
Fossil occurrences
1 sites

Countries with fossils

  • United Kingdom

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata