How big is a Pterodaustro?

3.6 ft.Pterodaustro / Length

How many teeth does Pterodaustro have?

1,000 teeth
While some pterosaurs had a small number of big, sharp teeth for stabbing prey and others were toothless, Pterodaustro (tair-o-DOW-stro) had about 1,000 teeth in its bill!

When did the Pterodaustro go extinct?

When did the Pterodaustro become extinct? According to their fossil discovery, it has been approximated that the last recorded appearance of Pterodaustro guinazui was around 100.5 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period in Argentina and Lagarcito formation in South America.

What did Pterodaustro eat?

Pterodaustro is a genus of Cretaceous pterodactyloid pterosaur from South America, which lived there 105 MYA. It was roughly 1.3 m in length and it lived near water. It fed on small animals, catching them by sifting its beak through the water, in the shallows or while floating.

When did the Pterodaustro live?

125 million years ago – 100.5 million years ago (Aptian – Albian)Pterodaustro / Lived

Did pterosaurs have teeth?

The pterosaur had a massive wingspan of about 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) — about as wide as a 10-year-old child is tall — and sported a total of 110 teeth, four of them inch-long (2.5 centimeters) fangs, said study researcher Brooks Britt, an associate professor of geology at Brigham Young University in Utah.

How many pterosaurs are there?

There are around 110 species of pterosaur currently known in about 85 genera.

What size was a pterodactyl?

The wingspan of these reptiles ranged from 2 to 11 metres (6.5 to 36 feet), which makes them the largest known flying animals.

What dinosaur did flamingos evolve from?

Pterodaustro is a pterosaur which lived approximately 140 million to 130 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Period. It was first discovered in the Lagarcito Formation in Argentina during the 1960s and was named by José Bonaparte in 1969.