An artist's rendering of the newfound pterosaur Aetodactylus halli. Credit: Karen Carr
Aetodactylus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in North America during late cretaceous period. The type and only species is A. halli.
Description[]
It was identified based on a 95-million-year-old lower jawbone found outside of Dallas by amateur fossil hunter Lance Hall. The pterosaur had a relatively slender jaw filled with thin, needlelike teeth, which might have helped the creature pluck fish from the shallow sea that once covered the region.