Tupuxuara was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Tupuxuara lived during the Late Cretaceous and resided in South America. The first Tupuxuara fossil was discovered in 1988.
Quick facts about Tupuxuara:
- Existed from Albian Age to 109 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- 5 different specimens have been found by paleontologists
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Tupuxuara 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
- R. C. Martins Neto and A. W. A. Kellner. 1988. Primeiro registro de pena na Formacao Santana (Cretaceo inferior), Bacia do Araripe, nordeste do Brasil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 60:61-68
