Alanqa

Alanqa is a pterodactyloid pterosaur from Morocco. The name Alanqa comes from the Arabic word العنقاء which means al-anqa which is a mythical bird in Arabian culture.

Alanqa is known from only 5 jaw fragments. The jaws are pointed like Quetzalcoatlus making it an azhdarchid. The jaw fragment sizes indicate that it has a wingspan of 13 ft. However, vertebrae assigned to the Alanqa indicate that it was 20 ft in wingspan.

It lived in the Kem Kem formation living alongside the Paralititan (a sauropod) and the theropods Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Sauroniops and the crocodile Aegisuchus.



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