How to View Quetzalcoatlus in 3D
Quetzalcoatlus 3D Viewer runs a Late Cretaceous azhdarchid pterosaur - not a dinosaur - in your browser. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, toggle a 1.8 m person against its wingspan, and click a body region for a fossil-sourced fact.
Open the Quetzalcoatlus page and take the camera
Open the Quetzalcoatlus 3D Viewer and wait for the facts panel to fill. When the status line says you can drag, orbit Quetzalcoatlus with the pointer and zoom with the scroll wheel or a two-finger pinch. Fullscreen expands the wrapper so the controls stay visible beside the scene. After first paint a license-clean CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF may swap in automatically from the CDN; if that load fails the page stays on the procedural pterosaur silhouette with zero regression.
Use the four Quetzalcoatlus controls under the canvas
Under the Quetzalcoatlus canvas, four controls handle view and scale:
- Fullscreen - fills the display while keeping the buttons visible
- Stop rotation / Auto-rotate - freezes or resumes auto-spin
- Idle motion - adds subtle body sway; tap again for Stand still
- Size vs human - shows a 1.8 m person at the honest panel wingspan ratio used by the viewer (about 10.5 m)
Read the Quetzalcoatlus facts panel and click a body part
The Quetzalcoatlus facts panel lists wingspan about 10-11 m (panel baseline 10.5 m), height about 2.5 m (panel silhouette), mass about 70-250 kg (panel baseline 200 kg), the Late Cretaceous window about 72-66 million years ago in Texas Big Bend / Javelina Formation, carnivore (likely small vertebrates) diet, named Lawson in 1975, and that Quetzalcoatlus was an azhdarchid pterosaur - not a dinosaur. A short click - not a drag - on a body region surfaces a short fossil fact. Soft-tissue color is an artistic reconstruction. When the CC-BY-SA 4.0 glTF by seth the yutyrannus via Printables loads, the status text notes a real model with that credit - a stylized reconstruction, not a laser scan. This model is not a fossil-accurate skeleton.
What the Quetzalcoatlus how-to guide is not
The Quetzalcoatlus how-to guide is a controls walkthrough for the in-browser viewer only - it does not place the model in your room (no AR), it does not claim Quetzalcoatlus was a dinosaur, it does not invent a single mass outside the published 70-250 kg range, it does not invent soft-tissue color accuracy, it does not invent game score or win states, and it does not claim the optional glTF is a scientifically exact reconstruction. For the size story see Quetzalcoatlus size comparison. For trade-offs versus phone AR apps see Quetzalcoatlus 3D viewer vs AR apps.
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