Genus
Valid Extinct

Linlongopterus

Rodrigues et al. 2015

Linlongopterus is a genus of pteranodontoid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China. It is known from a partial skull and mandible first named and described in 2015 by Rodrigues et al.. The only known specimen was found in the Jiufotang Formation of the Liaoning Province or China, and lived around 120 million years ago. The full binomial of the taxon is Linlongopterus jennyae.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Pteranodontoidea Superfamily
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Linlongopterus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Jiufotang
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Linlongopterus jennyae 121 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
T. Rodrigues, S. Jiang, and X. Cheng, X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new toothed pteranodontoid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of China and comments on Liaoningopterus gui Wang and Zhou, 2003. Historical Biology 27(6):782-795 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
T. Rodrigues, S. Jiang, and X. Cheng, X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. A new toothed pteranodontoid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Aptian) of China and comments on Liaoningopterus gui Wang and Zhou, 2003. Historical Biology 27(6):782-795 DOI ↗