Flying Dinosaur Names beginning with U
Flying Dinosaur Names beginning with U
Here on this flying dinosaurs / pterosaurs beginning with U page you will find a Fish eating flying dinosaur, and ones that range from Brazil, UK to the USA. Demonstrating how wide spread pterosaurs were across the world.
there are only three so far, so hopefully they will be joined by other pterosaurs beginning with
U as more are found!
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Pterosaurs beginning with U
Name: Uktenadactylus
When Lived: Early Cretaceous
Wingspan: 13-15 feet
Discovered: 1994 / 2009
Where: UK / USA
Diet: Piscivore
Uktenadactylus
Name meaning: Uktena finger
Uktenadactylus, a pterosaur discovered in both the UK and the United States, lived lived during the Early Cretaceous period and had a wingspan estimated to be around .4-5 metres.
it is thought to have been a piscivore / fish eater and used its teeth and beak to snatch fish from the water like others in its pterosaur family.
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Name: Unwindia
When Lived: Early Cretaceous
Wingspan: 10 feet
Discovered: 2011
Where: Brazil
Diet: Carnivore
Unwindia
Name meaning: for Unwin
Unwindia, was a pterosaur found in Brazil in 2011 and had 7 pairs of teeth.
Unwindia was medium sized pterosaur / flying dinosaur and it likely had a wingspan of about 3 m (9.8 ft)
Brazil at the time was full of lagoons and wetlands and although we don’t know exactly what it ate, its teeth show it was a carnivores.
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Name: Utahdactylus
When Lived: Late Jurassic
Wingspan: 3-4 feet
Discovered: 2002
Where: North America
Diet: carnivore / filter
Utahdactylus
Name meaning: Utah finger
Utahdactylus, a pterosaur found in Utah in The USA in 2002. and is thought to be a member of the Ctenochasmatidae – which to you and I are the Filter feeding pterosaurs / Flying dinosaurs
it has had a convoluted history and was only ( at the moment) in 2007 that it was classified as a Pterosaur.
it is estimated to have had a wingspan of around 1.2 metres (3-4 feet) making it fairly small.
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Conclusion
Although there are only three pterosaurs / flying dinosaurs beginning with U, they include Fish eating and carnivores they also range form 15 feet to 3 feet in size.
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