Alcione was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Alcione lived during the Unknown and resided in South America and North America.

All the Alcione illustrations below were collected from the internet. Enjoy and explore:

Alcione was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • N. R. Longrich, D. M. Martill, and B. Andres. 2018. Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PLoS Biology 16(3):e2001663:1-38