- Saurophthirus
Taxobox
name = "Saurophtirus"
status = fossil
fossil_range =Early Cretaceous
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Siphonaptera
genus = "Saurophtirus""Saurophthirus" ('lizard louse') is an extinct genus of
flea .Description
It was 2.50 cm (1 in) long and possibly sucked the
blood ofpterosaur s in theCretaceous , in the way that bat fleas feed onbat blood today.In popular culture
It had a cameo in "
Walking with Dinosaurs ", parasitizing an "Ornithocheirus ".References
[http://dml.cmnh.org/1997Apr/msg00383.html]
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