Genus
Valid Extinct

Huanhepterus

Dong 1982

Huanhepterus is an extinct genus of ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period of what is now Qingyang, Gansu, China.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Huanhepterus
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Skeletal reconstruction of Huanhepterus quingyangensis. © Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Pterosauria Order
Pterodactyloidea Suborder
Lophocratia Unranked clade
Huanhepterus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Huachi-Huanhe
1
Temporal distribution
Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Huanhepterus quingyangensis 137 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliography (1)
Z. Dong. 1982. On a new Pterosauria (<i>Huanhepterus quingyangensis</i> gen. et sp. nov.) from Ordos, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20(2):115-121