Caelestiventus facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Caelestiventus |
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| 3D printed skull reconstruction; the dip in the forehead is perhaps too pronounced | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Family: | †Dimorphodontidae |
| Genus: | †Caelestiventus Britt et al., 2018 |
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| †Caelestiventus hanseni Britt et al., 2018
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Caelestiventus is an early pterosaur. It is important because it is 65 million years older than any other known desert-dwelling pterosaur. Also, it shows that the earliest pterosaurs were morphologically and ecologically varied. The Dimorphodontidae originated in the Triassic period.
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