Gallodactylus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. The first Gallodactylus fossil was discovered in 1974.
Quick facts about Gallodactylus:
- Existed from Tithonian Age to 145 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a piscivore
- Could fly
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Gallodactylus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. Bidar and L. Demay. 1972. Compsognathus corallestris, nouvelle espèce de dinosaurien théropode du Portlandien de Canjuers (sud-est de la France). Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice 1(1):1-34
