Jianchangopterus

Jianchangopterus is an extinct genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic of western Liaoning, China. Jianchangopterus is known from a nearly complete skeleton with skull preserved. It was collected from the Tiaojishan Formation. It was first named by Lü Junchang and Bo Xue in 2011 and the type species is Jianchangopterus zhaoianus, named for Zhao Limin, who was instrumental in the study of the only known fossil.