Quetzalcoatlus
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Quetzalcoatlus | |
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Restored Quetzalcoatlus skeleton displayed in quadrupedal stance, Houston Museum of Natural Science | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Sauropsida |
Order: | † Pterosauria |
Suborder: | † Pterodactyloidea |
Faimily: | † Azdarchidae |
Genus: | †Quetzalcoatlus Lawson, 1975 |
Teep species | |
† Quetzalcoatlus northropi Lawson, 1975
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Quetzalcoatlus is an extinct genus o azhdarchid pterosaur knawn from the Late Cretaceous Maastrichtian age o North Americae. Its name comes from the Aztec feethered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. Type species is Q. northropi, named by Douglas Lawson in 1975.
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