Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Anhanguera blittersdorffi

Anhanguera blittersdorffi
Scale 9 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
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Animalia, Chordata, Pterosauria

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Anhanguera means “Old Devil.” The bumps on the tip of its bill may have helped stabilize its head when snatching fish as they leapt out of the water!

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Graphic by Raúl Martinwww.amnh.org/
Anhanguera (meaning “old devil”) is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous (Aptianage, 112Ma) Santana Formation of Brazil, with referred specimens found in the Upper Chalk Formation andCambridge Greensand of the UK (up to the late Cenomanian age, 94Ma). This pterosaur is closely related toOrnithocheirus, and belongs in the family Ornithocheiridae within its […] read more
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Anhanguera (meaning “old devil”) is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur known from the Lower-Cretaceous (Aptianage, 112Ma) Santana Formation of Brazil, with referred specimens found in the Upper Chalk Formation andCambridge Greensand of the UK (up to the late Cenomanian age, 94Ma). This pterosaur is closely related toOrnithocheirus, and belongs in the family Ornithocheiridae within its own subfamily, Anhanguerinae.[1]

(From Wikipedia, February 2015)