Genus
Valid Extinct

Sinomacrops

Wei et al. 2021

Sinomacrops is a genus of extinct anurognathid pterosaur from the Middle to Late Jurassic periods of what is now the Daohugou Beds of the Tiaojishan Formation in Mutoudeng, Qinglong County of the Hebei province. The remains of Sinomacrops date back to around 164 to 158 million years ago. The type and only known species is Sinomacrops bondei.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
Sinomacrops
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Holotype specimen of the anurognathid pterosaur Sinomacrops © Xuefang Wei, Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Caizhi Shen, Yanfang Guo, Waisum Ma, Deyu Sun, and Xuanyu Zhou · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Pterosauria Order
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Macronychoptera Unranked clade
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Novialoidea Unranked clade
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Lonchognatha Unranked clade
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Monofenestrata Unranked clade
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Caelidracones Unranked clade
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Anurognathidae Family
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Batrachognathinae Subfamily
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Sinomacrops Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Tiaojishan
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Sinomacrops bondei 165 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
X.-F. Wei, R. V. Pegas, and C.-Z. Shen, Y.-F. Guo, W.-S. Ma, D.-Y. Sun, X.-Y. Zhou. 2021. Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group. PeerJ 9:e11161 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
X.-F. Wei, R. V. Pegas, and C.-Z. Shen, Y.-F. Guo, W.-S. Ma, D.-Y. Sun, X.-Y. Zhou. 2021. Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and comments on the group. PeerJ 9:e11161 DOI ↗