Fenghuangopterus
Genus of rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Middle Jurassic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.
Fenghuangopterus | |
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Fossil specimen, Beijing Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Family: | †Rhamphorhynchidae |
Genus: | †Fenghuangopterus Lü, Fucha & Chen, 2010 |
Species: | †F. lii |
Binomial name | |
†Fenghuangopterus lii Lü, Fucha & Chen, 2010 | |
The type species Fenghuangopterus lii was in 2010 described and named by Lü Junchang et al. The generic name is derived from the Fenghuang Mountain and a Latinized Ancient Greek pteron, "wing". The specific name honors Li Xiumei, who donated the fossil. It is known from a single relatively complete, though badly crushed, fossil skeleton, holotype CYGB-0037, recovered from the Tiaojishan Formation of Liaoning Province, about 160 million years old. Fenghuangopterus is a member of the rhamphorhynchid subfamily Scaphognathinae, which had previously been known only from the Late Jurassic and includes the close relatives Scaphognathus, Sordes and Harpactognathus.[1]