Azhdarcho was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Azhdarcho lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in Europe and Asia. The first Azhdarcho fossil was discovered in 1984.
Quick facts about Azhdarcho:
- Existed from Turonian Age to 70.6 million years ago
- Lived in a desert
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 4 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Azhdarcho was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. K. Rozhdestvensky and L. I. Khozatsky. 1967. [Late Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates from the Asiatic part of the USSR]. In G. G. Martinson (ed.), [Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mesozoic and Paleogene-Neogene continental deposits of the Asiatic part of the USSR]. Leningrad: Nauka Press.
- A. N. Riabinin. 1931. Ostatki dinozavrov iz verkhnego mela nizov'ev r. Amu-Dar'i [On the dinosaurian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of the lower parts of the Amu-Daria River]. Zapiski Rossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva 60(1):114-118
- B. Vila, M. Suñer, and A. Santos-Cubedo, J. I. Canudo, B. Poza, A. Galobart. 2011. Saurischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
