Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Boreopterinae

Lü et al. 2012

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

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
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Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Boreopterinae
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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
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Boreopterinae Subfamily
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Bibliography
Original description
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 ↗