Genre
Valide Éteint

Linlongopterus

Rodrigues et al. 2015

Linlongopterus is a genus of pteranodontoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. It is known from a partial skull and mandible first named and described in 2015 by Rodrigues et al.. The only known specimen was found in the Jiufotang Formation of the Liaoning Province or China, and lived around 120 million years ago. The full binomial of the taxon is Linlongopterus jennyae.

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Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
1
Groupe
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marin
Classification
Pterosauria Ordre
Pterodactyloidea Sous-ordre
Pteranodontoidea Superfamille
Linlongopterus Genre
Sites de découverte 1 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇨🇳 Chine
1
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Aptien (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Espèces (1)
Linlongopterus jennyae 121 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
T. Rodrigues, S. Jiang, and X. Cheng, X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new toothed pteranodontoid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of China and comments on Liaoningopterus gui Wang and Zhou, 2003. Historical Biology 27(6):782-795 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (1)
T. Rodrigues, S. Jiang, and X. Cheng, X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new toothed pteranodontoid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of China and comments on Liaoningopterus gui Wang and Zhou, 2003. Historical Biology 27(6):782-795 DOI ↗