Volgadraco ("Volga River dragon") is a genus of pteranodontian pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of European Russia.
Volgadraco ("Volga River dragon") is a genus of pteranodontian pterosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of European Russia.
==Discovery and naming== Volgadraco is known from lower beak (holotype SGU, no. 46/104a) and postcranial fragments from the early Campanian-age Rybushka Formation of Saratov, Russia. The size of this animal, and the development of blood supply in the lower jaw are intermediate between older Santonian or Turonian azhdarchids like Azhdarcho and Bakonydraco and later Maastrichtian azhdarchids like Quetzalcoatlus. Volgadraco was described in 2008 by Averianov, Arkhangelsky, and Pervushov. The type species is V. bogolubovi, the specific name honouring Russian paleontologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).