Pterosaur
Quetzalcoatlus
It had a very long neck and a toothless beak.
Our first clues to Quetzalcoatlus came from fragments of a wing.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Quetzalcoatlus at a glance
- Diet
- Carnivore · terrestrial prey
- Walking on land to search for prey has been proposed for these large azhdarchids. Not all pterosaurs were fish-eaters.
- When it lived
- Cretaceous
- Group
- Azhdarchidae
- Azhdarchids
- Fossil locations
- Texas
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Quetzalcoatlus
The first specimen consisted of wing fragments found in Texas in 1971. Other remains allowed us to recognize a second species and expand the known anatomy of this azhdarchid pterosaur.
It had a very long neck and a toothless beak. Later discoveries revealed more of its anatomy and allowed another species to be distinguished, gradually filling out the reconstruction.
Azhdarchids were long-necked pterosaurs. Their wings were supported by a greatly elongated finger, rather than being built like birds’ wings.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.A note on the science
It had a very long neck and a toothless beak. Later discoveries revealed more of its anatomy and allowed another species to be distinguished, gradually filling out the reconstruction.
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- Quetzalcoatlus
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- Quetzalcoatlus
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- Azhdarchidae
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- Birds and crocodilians
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