Alanqa

Alanqa
Temporal range: Cenomanian, 95 Ma
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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 Edit this 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

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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