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Was Dimorphodon a Dinosaur?

Robert Thorne • • 5 min read
Was Dimorphodon a Dinosaur?

Dimorphodon is among the earliest known pterosaurs

pterosaurs
pterosaur, any of the flying reptiles that flourished during all periods (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous) of the Mesozoic Era (252.2 million to 66 million years ago). Although pterosaurs are not dinosaurs, both are archosaurs, or “ruling reptiles,” a group to which birds and crocodiles also belong.
, an extinct group of reptiles related to the dinosaurs. It was about a metre (3.3 feet) long and had a wingspan of about 1.7 metres.

Can a Dimorphodon fly?

In life, Dimorphodon probably relied on frantic short flights in the same manner as modern fowl, tinamous and woodpeckers, being unable to fly for long distances and probably only taking to the air as a last resort.

Did Dimorphodon teeth?

Dimorphodon was a pterosaur, or flying reptile of the early Jurassic period. Dimorphodon means “two-form tooth” because it had teeth of two different lengths. ... Unlike modern reptiles, Dimorphodon was probably warm-blooded.

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