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Quetzalcoatlus Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
- Age
- Cretaceous, about 72.2–66 million years ago
- Found in
- USA
- Length
- 6.2 m
- Height
- 1.4 m
- Group
- Pterosaur (azhdarchid relative; not a dinosaur)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (98 of 174) are estimated from close relatives and published reconstructions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 2 bones were shaped from photos or figures of this species' own fossils. 74 are borrowed from close relatives.
From this species 2Borrowed from relatives 74Estimated 98
Bones known from fossils
There is no record yet of which bones are known from fossils.
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D skeleton: A reconstruction created on this site from freely usable materials (research papers, out-of-copyright books, Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Of the 174 bones (excluding teeth), 2 bones were modeled from photographs, drawings, and dimensions of actual fossils of this species; 74 bones borrowed shapes from close relatives and were scaled to fit; and 98 bones were estimated. Materials used: Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.5 / CC BY 3.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0) / Witton, Naish 2008 PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002271 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Witton, Habib 2010 PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013982 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Naish, Witton 2017 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.2908 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For other papers not freely usable, only factual data such as reported dimensions were referenced.
- Bones found: 0 bones are reported in the literature as fossil finds or visible in photographs (the rest have not been found, or are unknown from the literature)
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