🚨 NEW PTEROSAUR! 🚨
Haliskia peterseni was an anhanguerid pterosaur from the early Cretaceous of Australia! It had an estimated wingspan of about 4.6 meters (≈15 feet), and might’ve ate soft ocean critters!
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100-million-year-old bones reveal #NewSpecies of pterosaur https://phys.org/news/2024-06-million-year-bones-reveal-species.html
Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian #pterosaur from the late Early #Cretaceous of #Australia: Adele Pentland et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-60889-8
"With a wingspan of approximately 4.6 m, #Haliskia would have been a fearsome predator when much of central western #Queensland was underwater, covered by a vast inland sea and globally positioned about where Victoria's southern coastline is today"
New Curtin University-led research has identified 100-million-year-old fossilized bones discovered in western Queensland, Australia as belonging to a newly identified species of pterosaur, which was a formidable flying reptile that lived among the dinosaurs.
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