| Saurophtirus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Siphonaptera |
| Genus: | Saurophtirus |
Saurophthirus is an extinct genus of flea.
It was 2.50 cm (1 in) long and possibly sucked the blood of pterosaurs in the Cretaceous, in the way that bat fleas feed on bat blood today.
It had a cameo in Walking with Dinosaurs, parasitizing an Ornithocheirus.