page_title: Pterosaur size
section_title: Pterosaurs with largest wingspan
hierarchical_section_title: Pterosaur size / Pterosaurs with largest wingspan
caption_attribution_description: English: Size comparison of the azhdarchid pterosaurs Quetzalcoatlus northropi and Quetzalcoatlus unnamed species, with a human. Modified from a diagram featured in Witton and Naish (2008). Español: Comparación de tamaño entre el ser humano, en verde los pterosaurios azhdarchid Quetzalcoatlus northropi, y en azul los pterosaurios Quetzalcoatlus (especies sin nombre). Como puede observarse, los ejemplares de la especie Quetzalcoatlus northropi son los más grandes.
context_page_description: Pterosaurs included the largest flying animals ever to have lived. They are a clade of prehistoric archosaurian reptiles closely related to dinosaurs. Species among pterosaurs occupied several types of environments, which ranged from aquatic to forested. Below is a list that comprises the largest pterosaurs known as of 2016.
  The smallest known pterosaur is Nemicolopterus with a wingspan of about 25 cm. The specimen found may be a juvenile or a subadult, however, and adults may have been larger.
context_section_description: This is a list of pterosaurs with estimated maximum wingspan of more than 5 metres (16 feet):
  Quetzalcoatlus northropi 7–13 m (23–43 ft)
  Arambourgiania philadelphiae 10–11 m (33–36 ft)
  Hatzegopteryx thambema 10–11 m (33–36 ft)
  Cryodrakon boreas 10 m (33 ft)
  Undescribed specimen from Mongolia 10 m (33 ft)
  Undescribed specimen UNCUYO-LD 350 9.1 m (30 ft)
  Tropeognathus mesembrinus 8.2 m (27 ft)
  Geosternbergia maysei 7.25 m (24 ft)
  Coloborhynchus capito 7 m (23 ft)
  Moganopterus zhuiana 7 m (23 ft)
  Pteranodon longiceps 6.25 m (20.5 ft)
  Tupuxuara longicristatus 6 m (20 ft)
  Santanadactylus araripensis 5.7 m (19 ft)
  Cearadactylus atrox 5.5 m (18 ft)
  Caulkicephalus trimicrodon 5 m (16 ft)
  Istiodactylus latidens 5 m (16 ft)
  Lacusovagus magnificens 5 m (16 ft)
  Liaoningopterus gui 5 m (16 ft)
  Phosphatodraco mauritanicus 5 m (16 ft)
  Anhanguera sp. 4.5 m (15 ft)
caption: Size comparison of Q. northropi (green), Q. sp (blue), and a human.
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