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

Group

Ptérosaures

Piscivore Volant Marine

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Skeletal reconstruction of Huanhepterus quingyangensis. © Jaime A. Headden (User:Qilong) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Pterosauria Order

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Pterodactyloidea Suborder

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Lophocratia Unranked clade

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Huanhepterus Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Huachi-Huanhe

Temporal distribution

Aptian (121.4–113.2 Ma)

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