Aetodactylus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Aetodactylus lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in North America. The first Aetodactylus fossil was discovered in 2010.
Quick facts about Aetodactylus:
- Existed from 99.6 million years ago to 93.5 million years ago
- Lived in a lake
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Aetodactylus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- T. S. Myers. 2010. A new ornithocheiroid pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Eagle Ford Group of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):280-287
