Sordes was a pterosaur, a type of flying reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it lived during the same period. Sordes lived during the Late Jurassic and resided in Asia. The first Sordes fossil was discovered in 1971.
Quick facts about Sordes:
- Existed from 163.5 million years ago to 152.1 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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Sordes was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. N. Riabinin. 1948. Zametka o letayushchem yashchere iz yury Kara-Tau [Note about a flying reptile from the Jurassic of Kara-Tau]. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademiy Nauk SSSR 1:86-93
