Coloborhynchus

Coloborhynchus
	Coloborhynchus skeleton in Naturalis , Leiden .
Temporal occurrence
	Lower Cretaceous
	approx. 110 million years
Locations
	Brazil ( Santana formation );
Systematics
	Archosauria
	Ornithodira
	Flugsaurier (Pterosauria)
	Short-tailed pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea)
	Ornithocheiridae
	Coloborhynchus
Scientific name
	Coloborhynchus
	Wellnhofer , 1985

Coloborhynchus araripensis is a fossil representative of the flying dinosaur from the Santana Formation in Brazil . It belongs tothe Ornithocheiridae family and lived about 110 million years ago.

This fossil was described in 1985 by the paleontologist Peter Wellnhofer. Coloborhynchus araripensis had a wingspan of about three meters.

literature

Peter Wellnhofer : New pterosaurs from the Santana Formation (Apt) of the Chapada do Araripe, Brazil. In: Palaeontographica. Department A: Paleozoology, Stratigraphy. Vol. 187, No. 4/6, 1985, ISSN 0375-0442 , pp. 105-182.