Moganopterus was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Moganopterus lived during the Early Cretaceous and resided in Asia. The first Moganopterus fossil was discovered in 2012.
Quick facts about Moganopterus:
- Existed from Barremian Age to 113 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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Moganopterus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- J. -C. Lü and H. -Y. Pu. 2012. Largest toothed pterosaur skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China, with comments on the family Boreopteridae. Acta Geological Sinica 86(2):287-293
