Quetzalcoatlus northropi- BIO203
Habitat
Quetzalcoatlus
northropi remains have been mostly found in mainland Texas in
places such as Big Bend National Park in the Southwestern part of Texas
(Kellner and Langston, 1996). Figure 1. Big Bend
National Park Although Q. northropi have only
been found in non-marine locations does not mean that they did not live
in marine habitats but could be just because those where the only places
where the remains could be preserved (Brower and Veinus, 1981). 
Based
on these accounts we can infer that Q. northropi resided in
marine and non-marine locations in North and Central America around 65
million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. If Q.
northropi did feed by skimming the water to eat fish or by hunting
in the shallows it would have to live near some sort of large water
source such as an ocean or a freshwater lake.