Beipiaopterus

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Beipiaopterus chenianus (Lü, 2002) was a pterosaur (flying reptile) of the family Ctenochasmatidae of the Yixian formation (Barremian- Lower Cretaceous) of Beipia City, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China.The type and only species is known from a large part of the vertebrae, a complete wing and two hind limbs. It had a wingspan of one metre and was fifty centimetres long. It was probably similar in appearance to Ctenochasma. The name means 'Beipia wing.'

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Lü J-C. and Wang X-L. 2001. Soft tissue in an Early Cretaceous pterosaur from Liaoning Province, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (supplement to 3): 74A. Lü J-C. 2002. Soft tissue in an Early Cretaceous pterosaur from Liaoning Province, China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 1: 19– 28.

Lü J.-C., 2003, A new pterosaur: Beipiaopterus chenianus, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from Western Liaoning Province, China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 2: 153-160.

Lü J.-C., Kobayashi Y., Yuan C., Ji S., and Ji Q., 2005, SEM Observation of the Wing Membrane of Beipiaopterus chenianus (Pterosauria). Acta Geologica Sinica 79:6 766-769.