Kepodactylus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Kepodactylus lived during the Late Jurassic and resided in North America. The first Kepodactylus fossil was discovered in 1996.
Quick facts about Kepodactylus:
- Existed from Kimmeridgian Age to Tithonian Age
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Kepodactylus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- J. D. Harris and K. Carpenter. 1996. A large pterodactyloid from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Garden Park, Colorado. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1996(8):473-484
