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Dorygnathus at altitude

author: Walter B. Myers/Novapix

reference: t-din02-00100

Image Size 300 DPI: 33 * 25 cm

A flock of Dorygnathus soars high over a rugged, Early Jurassic European landscape of Wollemi Pine approximately 180 million years ago. Dorygnathus had a wing span of about 3 feet and its large, curved fangs suggests that it dined primarily on fish. Like all pterosaurs, Dorygnathus was a flying reptile, not a dinosaur (the flying descendents of the dinosaurs live on today as birds).

Keywords for this photo:

ANIMAL - DORYGNATHUS - EARTH - FAUNA - FOREST - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - JURASSIC - MESOZOIC - PLANT - PTEROSAUR - REPTILE - TREE -