Huaxiadraco
Genus of tapejarid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous period / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huaxiadraco (meaning "Hua Xia [China] dragon") is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. It is the third valid genus of tapejarid from the Jehol Biota, after Sinopterus and Eopteranodon. It contains one species, Huaxiadraco corollatus, originally assigned to the defunct genus Huaxiapterus.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Tapejaridae |
Subfamily: | †Sinopterinae |
Genus: | †Huaxiadraco Pêgas et al., 2023 |
Type species | |
†Huaxiapterus corollatus Lü et al., 2006 | |
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