Family
Valid Extinct

Dsungaripteridae

(Young 1964)

Dsungaripteridae is a group of pterosaurs within the suborder Pterodactyloidea. They were robust pterosaurs with good terrestrial abilities and flight honed for inland settings, and were commonly interpreted as durophagous and possibly piscivorous pterosaurs. Fossils have been discovered from Early Cretaceous deposits in Asia, South America and possibly Europe.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
23
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Dsungaripteridae
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Reconstruction of skeleton; Lower Cretaceous (120 mio. Years); Jungar Basin, China. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
Dsungaripteridae Family
Fossil sites 23 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
11
🇲🇳 Mongolia
6
🇯🇵 Japan
2
🇩🇪 Germany
1
🇨🇱 Chile
1
🇷🇴 Romania
1
🇧🇷 Brazil
1
Geological formations
Lianmuqin
7
Tsagaantsav
6
Süntel
1
Santa Ana
1
Mengyin
1
Lower Bauxite
1
Hutubihe
1
Okurodani
1
Amagodani
1
Doushan
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
10
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
7
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Berriasian (143.1–137.05 Ma)
2
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
1
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255
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