Sericipterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Sericipterus lived during the Late Jurassic and resided in Asia. The first Sericipterus fossil was discovered in 2010.
Quick facts about Sericipterus:
- Existed from Oxfordian Age to 157.3 million years ago
- Lived in a ridge
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Sericipterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- B. Andres and J. M. Clark. 2010. A new rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and the phylogenetic relationships of basal pterosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):163-187
