Pterosaurs with largest wingspan – Top 10

Pterosaurs were flying reptiles but not flying dinosaurs. They lived 162 mln years from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period – 228 to 66 million years ago. Pterosaurs were the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight. Their wings were formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a incredible lengthened fourth finger.

Pterosaurs spanned a wide range of adult sizes, from the very small Nemicolopterus (with a wingspan of about 250 mm (10 in)) to the largest known flying creatures of all time, including Quetzalcoatlus and Hatzegopteryx.

The largest pterosaurs – update year 2022

Previous statements

The largest pterosaurs – update year 2018

 The oldest statement (2015 AD)

1. Arambourgiania philadelphiae 7–13 m (23–43 ft)
2. Hatzegopteryx thambema 10–11 m (33–36 ft)
3. Quetzalcoatlus northropi 10–11 m (33–36 ft)
4. Undescribed specimen from Mongolia 10 m (33 ft)
5. Undescribed specimen UNCUYO-LD 350 9.1 m (30 ft)
6. Tropeognathus mesembrinus 8.2 m (27 ft)
7. Geosternbergia maysei 7.25 m (24 ft)
8. Coloborhynchus capito 7 m (23 ft)
9. Moganopterus zhuiana 7 m (23 ft)
10. Pteranodon longiceps 6.25 m (20.5 ft)
11. Tupuxuara longicristatus 6 m (20 ft)
12. Santanadactylus araripensis 5.7 m (19 ft)
13. Cearadactylus atrox 5.5 m (18 ft)
14. Caulkicephalus trimicrodon 5 m (16 ft)
15. Istiodactylus latidens 5 m (16 ft)
16. Lacusovagus magnificens 5 m (16 ft)
17. Liaoningopterus gui 5 m (16 ft)
18. Phosphatodraco mauritanicus 5 m (16 ft)

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