In Depth
Mimodactylus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in North Africa during the earlier stages of the Late Cretaceous. Mimodactylus is described from the almost complete fossil remains of a juvenile. Mimodactylus has teeth that are fairly short, conical and unserrated. These teeth would have been most suited to cracking opened the hard shells of molluscs and crustaceans, suggesting that Mimodactylus may have been a shellfish eater.
Further Reading
- First complete pterosaur from the Afro-Arabian continent: insight into pterodactyloid diversity. - Scientific Reports. 9 (1). - Wilhelm Armin Kellner, Michael Wayne Caldwell, Borja Holgado, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia, Roy Nohra, Juliana Manso Say�o and Philip John Currie - 2019.
