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The type species is L. magnificens, meaning "grand lake wanderer", in reference to its large size—it is currently the largest pterosaur known from the Crato Formation with an estimated wingspan of approximately 4 metres (13 ft) and a body mass of 30 kg (66 lb).
The largest of non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs as well as the largest Jurassic pterosaur [16] was Dearc, with an estimated wingspan between 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) and 3.8 m (12 ft). [17] Only a fragmentary rhamphorhynchid specimen from Germany could be larger (184 % the size of the biggest Rhamphorhynchus ). [ 18 ]
Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America. The first specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments.
Inabtanin alarabia is one of the most complete pterosaur fossils ever found from this region, according to the researchers. ... A diversity of pterosaur flight. The largest flying modern bird is ...
A Mesozoic reptile is believed to have been the largest flying animal that ever existed: the pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus northropi, from North America during the late Cretaceous. This species is believed to have weighed up to 126 kg (278 lb), measured 7.9 m (26 ft) in total length (including a neck length of over 3 m (9.8 ft)) and measured up to ...
Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland Australia, soared a formidable pterosaur - flying reptile - boasting a bony crest at the tip of its ...
Hatzegopteryx ("Hațeg basin wing") is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur found in the late Maastrichtian deposits of the Densuş Ciula Formation, an outcropping in Transylvania, Romania. It is known only from the type species , Hatzegopteryx thambema , named by paleontologists Eric Buffetaut, Dan Grigorescu, and Zoltan Csiki in 2002 based on ...
Tropeognathus is regarded as the largest pterosaur found in the Southern Hemisphere, only rivaled by the huge azhdarchids. [1] The type and only species is Tropeognathus mesembrinus . Fossil remains of Tropeognathus have been recovered from the Romualdo Formation , which is a Lagerstätte located in the Santana Group of the Araripe Basin in ...