Genus
Valid Extinct

Hamipterus

Wang et al. 2014

Hamipterus is an extinct genus of pteranodontoid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of northwestern China. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, the type species, H. tianshanensis.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Hamipterus
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Paratype skull of Hamipterus tianshanensis on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China. © Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontoidea Superfamily
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Hamipterus Genus
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
Geological formations
Shengjinkou
4
Temporal distribution
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
4
Species (1)
Hamipterus tianshanensis 137 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and S. Jiang, Q. Wang, Y. Ma, Y. Paidoula, X. Cheng, T. Rodrigues, X. Meng, J. Zhang, N. Li, Z. Zhou. 2014. Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24:1323-1330 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
X. Wang, K. L. N. Bandeira, and R. Qiu, S. Jiang, X. Cheng, Y. Ma, A. W. A. Kellner. 2021. The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China. Scientific Reports 11:14962:1-17 DOI ↗
X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, and S. Jiang, Q. Wang, Y. Ma, Y. Paidoula, X. Cheng, T. Rodrigues, X. Meng, J. Zhang, N. Li, Z. Zhou. 2014. Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China. Current Biology 24:1323-1330 DOI ↗