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
	2001-07-01
发表期刊	CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
卷号	46 期号:13 页码:1112-1117
文章类型	Article
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.
关键词	Western Liaoning Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation Pterodactylidae
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
关键词[WOS]	DINOSAUR
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000170251400015
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/2061
专题	古低等脊椎动物研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.China Univ Geosci, Coll Earth Sci & Resources, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 3.So Methodist Univ, Dept Geol Sci, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, XL,Lu, JC. 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.(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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