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Quetzalcoatlus belongs to the family Azhdarchidae, a group of advanced toothless pterosaurs with unusually long, stiffened necks and giant wingspans. Below is a cladogram showing the phylogenetic placement of Quetzalcoatlus within Neoazhdarchia from Andres and Myers (2013). [17] Neoazhdarchia.
Quetzalcōātl. God of life, light and wisdom, lord of the day and the winds. Ruler of the West [1] Quetzalcoatl (/ ˌkɛtsəlkoʊˈætəl / [3]) [pron 1] (Nahuatl: "Feathered Serpent") is a deity in Aztec culture and literature. Among the Aztecs, he was related to wind, Venus, Sun, merchants, arts, crafts, knowledge, and learning.
A paleo-population study is one of the most difficult of analyses to conduct in field paleontology. Here is the most recent estimate of the proportions of the eight most common dinosaurian families in the Hell Creek Formation, based on detailed field studies by White, Fastovsky and Sheehan. [32] Ceratopsidae 61%.
The largest known bird of prey ever was the enormous Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei), with a wingspan of 2.6 to 3 m (8 ft 6 in to 9 ft 10 in), relatively short for their size. [519][520] Total length was probably up to 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) in female [521] and they weighed about 10 to 15 kg (22 to 33 lb). [522]
Specimen TMP 1980.16.1367, originally mistaken as a leg bone in 1982, is a fifth neck vertebra with an estimated original length of 50 centimeters (1.6 ft), indicating an animal equal in size to the holotype of Quetzalcoatlus northropi, [1] the wingspan of which has been initially estimated at 13 meters (43 ft), [5] but then moderated at 10 ...
Pterosaurs[b][c] are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria. They existed during most of the Mesozoic: from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (228 to 66 million years ago). [8] Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.
Hatzegopteryx. 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 Buffetaut et al. in 2002 based on parts of the skull and humerus.
Clark et al., 2001. Citipati ([ˈtʃiːt̪ɪpət̪i]; meaning "funeral pyre lord") is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago. It is mainly known from the Ukhaa Tolgod locality at the Djadochta Formation, where the first remains were collected during the 1990s.