Barbosania was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Barbosania lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in South America. The first Barbosania fossil was discovered in 2011.

Quick facts about Barbosania:

  • Existed from 122.46 million years ago to Albian Age
  • Lived in a marine environment
  • Was a piscivore
  • Could fly
  • 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists

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

Barbosania was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • L. I. Price. 1971. A presença de Pterosauria no Cretáceo Inferior da Chapada do Araripe, Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 43:451-461
  • B. A. R. Mohr and H. Eklund. 2003. Araripia florifera, a magnoliid angiosperm from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation (Brazil). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 126:279-292