Albadraco
Sign in to saveAlbadraco is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Romania. The type species is Albadraco tharmisensis. Its remains, consisting of parts of the snout and a neck vertebra, were found in the Șard Formation, near the city of Alba Iulia in Transylvania. The species was named and described in 2020 by paleontologist Alexandru Solomon and colleagues.
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Albadraco is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Romania. The type species is Albadraco tharmisensis. Its remains, consisting of parts of the snout and a neck vertebra, were found in the Șard Formation, near the city of Alba Iulia in Transylvania. The species was named and described in 2020 by paleontologist Alexandru Solomon and colleagues.
Albadraco is estimated to have had a wingspan ranging from based on its holotype specimen, though adults are speculated to have reached . Albadraco shared its habitat with the much larger pterosaur Hatzegopteryx, both of them belonging to the Azhdarchidae.
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