Pterosaur
Hamipterus
Hamipterus was a pterosaur with a long toothed snout and a cranial crest.
Hamipterus was a pterosaur with a long toothed snout and a cranial crest. Fossils associated with the animal provide important information about pterosaur reproduction as well as adult anatomy.
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Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Hamipterus at a glance
- Diet
- Fish-eating
- Its feeding anatomy is associated with taking fish and other aquatic prey.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Pterosauria
- Pterosauria
Beyond the game
The real Hamipterus
Hamipterus was a pterosaur with a long toothed snout and a cranial crest. Fossils associated with the animal provide important information about pterosaur reproduction as well as adult anatomy.
Its teeth, jaws and cranial crest provide a distinctive head construction. Fossils associated with the animal have also contributed important evidence about pterosaur reproduction.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
Explore the references behind this profile.
- Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China
- Paleobiology Database: Hamipterus tianshanensis
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