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Dsungaripterus (sung-ar-RIP-ter-us) Meat eater ,10 feet wide, Late Jurassic period. 145 million years ago located in Africa, Asia. A medium-sized pterosaur with an unusual shoe-shaped beak. Its wings extended to 15 feet wide. Its sharp, toothless beak may have been used to scrape small animals out of the ground to crush between the flat teeth at the back of its jaws.