Genus
Valid Extinct

Noripterus

Young 1973

Noripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Lower Cretaceous of Asia. The type species, Noripterus complidicens, is from the Wuerho Pterosaur Fauna (WPF) of the Lianmuqin Formation and Shengjinkou Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. Both formations have seen various age estimates, with data suggest at least some of the WPF dates to the middle Valanginian, but the upper and lower bounds of these pterosaur bearing deposits remains unclear. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian in 1973. The second species, Noripterus parvus, was recovered from the Tsagaantsav Formation of Mongolia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Noripterus
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Pes of Noripterus complicidens © Li, Yang; Wang, Xiaolin; Jiang, Shunxing · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Pterodactyloidea Suborder
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Azhdarchoidea Superfamily
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Dsungaripteridae Family
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Noripterus Genus
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
4
🇲🇳 Mongolia
4
Geological formations
Lianmuqin
4
Tsagaantsav
4
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
4
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
4
Species (2)
Noripterus complicidens 137 Ma
Noripterus parvus 137 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Phobetor subjective synonym of Noripterus
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliography (4)
J. Lü, Y. Azuma, and Z. Dong, R. Barsbold, Y. Kobayashi, Y.-N. Lee. 2009. New material of dsungaripterid pterosaurs (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from western Mongolia and its palaeoecological implications. Geological Magazine 146:690-700 DOI ↗
N. N. Bakhurina and D. M. Unwin. 1995. a survey of pterosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Historical Biology 10:197-245 DOI ↗
N. N. Bakhurina. 1982. [A pterodactyl from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1982(4):104-108
C.-C. Young. 1973. [Pterosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica 11:18-35