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he-who-needs-to-be-silenced · 2 months

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Drew this

The scale is a little weird but do this by myself at night

You ever fall in love with a prehistoric animal not because of other reconstructions but because of your own?

can we go back to Simurghia yet

Discount Pteranodont (jk love you tethydraco)

The child predator

and Jerry

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mrultra100 · 1 year

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Phosphatodraco mauritanicus (Mauritania’s phosphate dragon) was an azhdarchid pterosaur from North Africa. Being in the same family as skybound giants such as Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx, but only being 9 feet tall. Despite its smaller size when compared to its much larger relatives, Phosphatodraco was still a terrifying predator to behold. As well as being extremely good flyers, these creatures were also adapted for life on the ground, serving as predators to any small animal that was unlucky enough to get in its way.

#prehistoric planet #phosphatodraco #my artz #Ultra Ramblings #May-srichtian Madness

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skyradiant · 1 year

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Life of our Prehistoric Planet: Phosphatodraco mauritanicus.

#prehistoric planet #prehistoric planet season 1 #phosphatodraco #pterosaur #cretaceous period #mine #q

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extinctworld-ua · 2 years

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Phosphatodraco

Phosphatodraco — рід птерозаврів-аждархідів із пізньої крейди Марокко. Типовий і єдиний відомий вид — Phosphatodraco mauritanicus. Phosphatodraco був аждархідом помірного розміру з приблизним розмахом крил близько 5 метрів. Він заснований на ряді шийних хребців з фосфатних пластів басейну Улед-Абдун, відкладів самого кінця крейди. Це був перший птерозавр, який отримав назву від фосфатних пластів, хоча багато…

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https://extinctworld.in.ua/phosphatodraco/

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a-dinosaur-a-day · 6 years

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Phosphatodraco mauritanicus

By Joschua Knüppe ; retrieved from http://www.pteros.com/, a website dedicated to education about Pterosaurs.

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Name: Phosphatodraco mauritanicus

First Described: 2003

Described By: Pereda-Suberbiola et al. 2003

Classification: Avemetatarsalia, Ornithodira, Pterosauromorpha, Pterosauria, Macronychoptera, Novialoidea, Breviquartossa, Pterodactylomorpha, Monofenestrata, Pterodactyliformes, Caelidracones, Pterodactyloidea, Eupterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiroidea, Azhdarchoidea, Neoazhdarchia, Neopterodactyloidea, Azhdarchidae

Phosphatodraco is yet another Azhdarchid. It lived at the very end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago) in what is now phosphatic basins of Morocco (hence the name). The only fossils definitively known to be from this species are neck vertebrae - one series of five vertebrae, and another isolated one. The neck appears to not have been as elongated as in taxa like Quetzalcoatlus, implying it may have been a more basal Azhdarchid. Its wingspan is estimated at being around 16.4 feet. The deposit it’s known from was evidently marine, as evidenced by the hundreds of oceangoing pterosaurs. Presumably Phosphatodraco was terrestrial like other Azhdarchids, explaining its relative rarity.

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https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/phosphatodraco.html

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