Genus
Valid Extinct

Dsungaripterus

Young 1964
Etymology aile du bassin de Junggar

Dsungaripterus is a genus of dsungaripterid pterosaur which lived during the Early Cretaceous in what is now China and possibly South Korea. Its fossils come from the Wuerho Pterosaur Fauna group (WPF) of the Tugulu Group, comprising sections of the Lianmuqin and Shengjinkou Formations of the Junggar Basin. Both formations have been given various age estimates, with data suggesting at least some of the WPF date to the middle Valanginian, but the upper and lower bounds of these pterosaur bearing deposits remain unclear.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
4
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Dsungaripterus
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Reconstruction of skeleton; Lower Cretaceous (120 mio. Years); Jungar Basin, China. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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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Dsungaripterus Genus
Fossil sites 4 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
3
🇲🇳 Mongolia
1
Geological formations
Lianmuqin
2
Hutubihe
1
Tsagaantsav
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
2
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
1
Valanginian (137.05–132.6 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Dsungaripterus weii 137 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
C.-C. Young. 1964. On a new pterosaurian from Sinkiang, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8(3):221-255
Bibliography (3)
L. Xing, M. G. Lockley, and C. Jia, H. Klein, K. Niu, L. Zhang, C. Chou, A. Romilio, D. Wang, Y. Zhang, W. S. Persons, M. Wang. 2021. Lower Cretaceous avian-dominated, theropod, thyreophoran, pterosaur and turtle track assemblages from the Tugulu Group, Xinjiang, China: ichnotaxonomy and palaeoecology. PeerJ 9:e11476:1-73 DOI ↗
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 ↗
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