Liaoningopterus

Taxobox
name = "Liaoningopterus"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous

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image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Pterosauria
subordo = Pterodactyloidea
familia = Ornithocheiridae
genus = "Liaoningopterus"
genus_authority = Wang & Zhou, 2003
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="L. gui" Wang & Zhou, 2003 (type)

"Liaoningopterus" (meaning "Liaoning wing"), sometimes misspelled "Liaoningopteryx", was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. It is based on IVPP V-13291, a partial skull and skeleton including the jaws, teeth, cervical vertebrae, and the finger supporting the wing. It was a large pterosaur (the largest known from China at the time of description, with a skull length estimated at 61 cm (24 in), wingspan estimated at 5 m (16.4 ft)), with a long low skull bearing crests at the tip of the beak on both lower and upper jaws, teeth only found at the anterior end of the jaws, and very large teeth (the largest for any pterosaur). The authors described it as probably a piscivore, due to the long, pointed snout.Wang X.-L. and Zhou Z.-H. (2003). Two new pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China. "Vertebrata PalAsiatica" 41(1):34-41.] If Anhangueridae is considered to be a separate family, it would have been an anhanguerid.Xiaolin Wang, Kellner, A.W.K., Zhonghe Zhou, and de Almeida Campos, D. (2005). Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. "Nature" 437:875-879.]

References

External links

* [http://www.pterosaur.co.uk/species/LCP/Anhang/Liaoningopterus.htm "Liaoningopterus"] in The Pterosaur Database
* [http://archosauria.org/pterosauria/taxonomy/genera/liaoningopterus.html "Liaoningopterus"] in The Pterosauria