Brasileodactylus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Brasileodactylus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in South America. The first Brasileodactylus fossil was discovered in 1984.
Quick facts about Brasileodactylus:
- Existed from 112.03 million years ago to 109 million years ago
- Lived in a plateau
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Brasileodactylus 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
