Alanqa
Genus of azhdarchid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alanqa is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period (Cenomanian stage) of what is now the Kem Kem Beds of southeastern Morocco. The name Alanqa comes from the Arabic word العنقاء al-‘Anqā’, for a mythical bird of Arabian culture.[1]
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Alanqa | |
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Lower jaw (top left, matched with the rostrum of Apatorhamphus) compared to the skull of Zhejiangopterus (top right) and the lower jaw of Quetzalcoatlus (bottom) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Alanqidae |
Genus: | †Alanqa Ibrahim et al., 2010 |
Species: | †A. saharica |
Binomial name | |
†Alanqa saharica Ibrahim et al., 2010 | |
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