Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Boreopteridae

Lü et al. 2006

Boreopteridae is a group of pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Boreopteridae
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Boreopterus sp., Liaoning Palaeontological Museum © Dlyj0604 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Archaeopterodactyloidea Superfamily
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Boreopteridae Unranked clade
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
Geological formations
Yixian
4
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
4
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
J. Lü. 2010. A boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(2):241-246 DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
S.-X. Jiang, X.-L. Wang, and X. Meng, X. Cheng. 2014. A new boreopterid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China, with a reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the Boreopteridae. Journal of Paleontology 88(4):823-828 DOI ↗
J. -C. Lü, H. -Y. Pu, and L. Xu, Y. -H. Wu, X. -F. Wei. 2012. Largest toothed pterosaur skull from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China, with comments on the family Boreopteridae. Acta Geological Sinica 86(2):287-293 DOI ↗
J. Lü. 2010. A boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(2):241-246 DOI ↗
J. Lü and Q. Ji. 2005. A new ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(2):157-163