Coloborhynchus
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Lower Cretaceous | ||||||||||||
approx. 110 million years | ||||||||||||
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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.