Parapsicephalus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Parapsicephalus lived during the Early Jurassic and resided in Europe. The first Parapsicephalus fossil was discovered in 1919.
Quick facts about Parapsicephalus:
- Existed from 183 million years ago to 182 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 2 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Parapsicephalus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- E. T. Newton. 1888. On the skull, brain and auditory organ of a new species of pterosaurian (Scaphognathus purdoni) from the Upper Lias near Whitby, Yorkshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 179:503-537
- M. O'Sullivan and D. M. Martill. 2013. A pterosaur humerus and scapulocoracoid from the Jurassic Whitby Mudstone Formation, and the evolution of large body size in early pterosaurs. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
