Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China

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	Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China
	Wang, XL; Lu, JC; Wang, XL (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China.
	2001
发表期刊	CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
ISSN	1001-6538
卷号	46 期号:13 页码:1112—1117
摘要	A well-preserved pterosaur with nearly complete skull is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Sihetun in western Liaoning. It is characterized by a low and long crestless skull, slender and pointed teeth, long metacarpal, nearly equal length of metatarsals I -III and short pedal digit V. It is referred to a new genus and species of the family Pterodactylidae: Haopterus gracilis gen. et sp. nov. This is the first pterosaur with a nearly complete skull from the Jehol Biota; it also represents the first non-controversial fossil record of Pterodactylidae in Asia. Haopterus is more derived than Pterodactylus from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen in Germany. This discovery extends the distribution of the family Pterodactytidae from Europe and Africa to Asia and its latest occurrence from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. The discovery of Haopterus gracilis provides further evidence for the study of the origin and radiation of the Jehol Biota; it also sheds new light on the evolution and distribution of pterosaurs in the late Mesozoic.
收录类别	SCI收录
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3857
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Wang, XL (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, XL,Lu, JC,Wang, XL . Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China[J]. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,2001,46(13):1112—1117.
APA	Wang, XL,Lu, JC,&Wang, XL .(2001).Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China.CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,46(13),1112—1117.
MLA	Wang, XL,et al."Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China".CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 46.13(2001):1112—1117.

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