Mistralazhdarcho
Name:
Mistralazhdarcho
(Mistral Azdarcho).
Phonetic: Mis-tral-az-dar-ko.
Named By: Romain Vullo, G�raldine Garcia, Pascal
Godefroit, Aude Cincotta & Xavier Valentin - 2018.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Azhdarchidae.
Species: M. maggii (type).
Diet: Carnivore?/Pisicvore?
Size: Holotype wingspan roughly estimated to be
about 4.5 meters, but this is for a juvenile. Adult size
unknown.
Known locations: France.
Time period: Campanian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial skeleton. Remains are of a juvenile.
Mistralazhdarcho
is a genus of azdarchid pterosaur
that lived in Western Europe during
the late Cretaceous. Because the remains of the holotype individual
are both incomplete and of an immature individual, the full size of
Mistralazhdarcho is unknown at the time of
writing. Comparison to
the remains of other azdarchid pterosaur genera however suggests that
when fully grown Mistralazhdarcho would have had a
wingspan somewhere
between five and six meters, at medium size for an azdarchid
pterosaur.
Further reading
- Mistralazhdarcho maggii,
gen. et sp. nov., a new azhdarchid pterosaur from the Upper
Cretaceous of southeastern France. - Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology. - Romain Vullo, G�raldine Garcia, Pascal
Godefroit, Aude Cincotta & Xavier Valentin - 2018.
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