Ferrodraco
Name:
Ferrodraco
(Iron dragon).
Phonetic: Feh-ro-dray-ko.
Named By: Adele H. Pentland, Stephen F.
Poropat, Travis R.Tischler, Trish Sloan, Robert A. Elliot,
Harry A. Elliott, Judy A. Elliott & David A. Elliot
- 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Ornithocheiridae,
Ornithocheirinae.
Species: F. lentoni (type).
Diet: Piscivore?
Size: Wingspan roughly estimated to be about 4
meters. Skull roughly estimated to be about 60 centimetres long.
Known locations: Australia, Winton Formation.
Time period: Cenomanian/Turonian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial forward portion of
the skull and dentary. Partial forelimb (wing) bones.
Ferrodraco
is a genus of pterosaur
known to have lived in Australia during the
late Cretaceous. Ferrodraco is an ornithocheird
pterosaur, a type
often associated with the sea, snatching fish from the water. Like
many of its relatives, Ferrodraco had a crest
rising up on the end of
the snout, which in Ferrodraco seems to have been
roughly triangular
when viewed from the side.
Further reading
- Ferrodraco lentoni gen.
et sp. nov., a new ornithocheirid pterosaur from the Winton
Formation (Cenomanian–lower Turonian) of Queensland, Australia.
- Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 13454. - Adele H.
Pentland, Stephen F. Poropat, Travis R.Tischler, Trish Sloan,
Robert A. Elliot, Harry A. Elliott, Judy A. Elliott
&
David A. Elliot - 2019.
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