Genus
Valid Extinct

Qinglongopterus

Lü et al. 2012

Qinglongopterus is a genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Middle/Upper Jurassic of Mutoudeng, Qinglong County, Hebei Province, China. Qinglongopterus is known from only one specimen; D3080/3081, a nearly complete skeleton collected from the Tiaojishan Formation. It was described by Lü Junchang et al. in 2012. The type species is Qinglongopterus guoi.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ptérosaures
Piscivore Volant Marine
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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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Breviquartossa Unranked clade
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Rhamphorhynchidae Family
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Rhamphorhynchinae Subfamily
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Qinglongopterus 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)
Qinglongopterus guoi 168 Ma
Bibliography
Original description
J. Lü, D. M. Unwin, and B. Zhao, C. Gao, C. Shen. 2012. A new rhamphorhynchid (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchidae) from the Middle/Upper Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China. Zootaxa 3158:1-19 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
J. Lü, D. M. Unwin, and B. Zhao, C. Gao, C. Shen. 2012. A new rhamphorhynchid (Pterosauria: Rhamphorhynchidae) from the Middle/Upper Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China. Zootaxa 3158:1-19 DOI ↗