Haopterus
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| Haopterus Fossil range: Early Cretaceous |
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| Haopterus gracilis Wang and Lü, 2001 |
Haopterus (meaning "Professor Yichun Hao's wing") was a genus of ornithocheirid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China. It is based on IVPP V11726, the front half of a subadult, including a skull, pectoral girdle, sternum, arms, cervical and dorsal vertebrae, and metatarsals. The skull was long and low, with no crest, and had short, sharp, rearward-pointing teeth. The authors suggested that its slender hindfeet meant it was a piscivore, and that it preferred to move quadrupedally on land. The wingspan of the type individual was estimated at 1.35 m (4.43 ft).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Wang X. and Lü J. (2001). Discovery of a pterodactloid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 45(12):447-454.
[edit] External links
- Haopterus in The Pterosaur Database
- Haopterus in The Pterosauria
- Painting of Haopterus at the Dinosauricon
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