Douzhanopterus
Name:
Douzhanopterus
(D�u-zh�nsh�ng-f� wing).
Phonetic: Du-zhan-op-teh-rus.
Named By: Wang Xiaoli, Jiang Shunxing, Zhang
Junqiang, Cheng Xin, Yu Xuefeng, Li Yameng, Wei Guangjin
& Wang Xiaolin - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Pterodactyliforme.
Species: D. zhengi (type).
Diet: Piscivore?
Size: Wingspan estimated at about 74 centimetres.
Known locations: China, Liaoning - Tiaojishan
Formation.
Time period: Oxfordian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Almost complete post cranial
skeleton preserved flat on a slab.
Douzhanopterus
is a genus of pterosaur
that lived in China during the late Jurassic.
Douzhanopterus is a pterodactyliforme pterosaur and
what this means is
that the genus shows a transition from more primitive rhamphorhynchid
pterosaurs of the early Jurassic to the more advanced pterodactyloid
pterosaurs of the late Jurassic and Cretaceous.
Further reading
- New evidence from China
for the nature of the pterosaur evolutionary transition".
Scientific Reports. 7: 42763. - Wang Xiaoli, Jiang
Shunxing, Zhang Junqiang, Cheng Xin, Yu Xuefeng, Li Yameng,
Wei Guangjin & Wang Xiaolin - 2017.
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