Genus
Valid Extinct

Boreopterus

Lü and Ji 2005
Etymology aile du nord

Boreopterus is a genus of boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Boreopterus
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Boreopterus sp., Liaoning Palaeontological Museum © Dlyj0604 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Archaeopterodactyloidea Superfamily
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Boreopteridae Unranked clade
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Boreopterus Genus
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
2
Geological formations
Yixian
2
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Species (2)
Boreopterus cuiae 126 Ma
Boreopterus giganticus 126 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163
Bibliography (2)
S.-X. Jiang, X.-L. Wang, and X. Meng, X. Cheng. 2014. A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae. Journal of Paleontology 88(4):823-828 DOI ↗
J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163