Gegepterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Gegepterus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Gegepterus fossil was discovered in 2007.
Quick facts about Gegepterus:
- Existed from 130 million years ago to 122.46 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Gegepterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- X. Xu and X.-L. Wang. 1999. A dromaeosaurid dinosaur with a filamentous integument from the Yixian Formation of China. Nature 401:262-266
