Quetzalcoatlus northropi Animal Pictures

Quetzalcoatlus northropi

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Quetzalcoatlus northropi, Azhdarchidae; Model in life size with a wingspan of 13 meters based on fossils from Texas, USA; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Backgroud changed.

Quetzalcoatlus northropi
Model created by René Kastner, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany. Foto: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — License (Original)

Quetzalcoatlus northropi was the largest member of the Quetzalcoatlus genus. It is said to have stood as tall as a giraffe.

Life restoration of Quetzalcoatlus

Quetzalcoatlus by johnson mortimer
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The Quetzalcoatlus northropi is one of the largest flying animals to have ever existed. It lived on earth about 144 to 67 million years ago.

Quetzalcoatlus model at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, England.

Quetzalcoatlus northropi
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Quetzalcoatlus northropi lived in North and Central America during the Late Cretaceous Period (144 to 67 million years ago).