Sinomacrops
Name:
Sinomacrops
(large face).
Phonetic: Sy-noe-mac-rops.
Named By: Xuefang Wei, Rodrigo Vargas P�gas,
Caizhi Shen, Yanfang Guo, Waisum Ma, Deyu Sun & Xuanyu
Zhou - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Pterosauria, Anurognathidae, Batrachognathinae.
Species: S. bondei (type).
Diet: Insectivore.
Size: Body length from skull to pelvis about 8-9
centimetres, but holotype specimen is crushed and slightly
distorted. Tail not preserved but a rough impression remains
indicating an additional tail of length of at least 36
millimeters, though the end of the tail and therefore total length
is not known.
Known locations: China, Hebei Province -
Tiaojishan Formation.
Time period: Bathonian-Oxfordian of the Jurassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skeleton preserved on
a slab.
Sinomacrops
is a genus of anurognathid pterosaur
that lived in South-East Asia
during the Jurassic. Even when compared to other anurognathids,
Sinomacrops seems to have been tiny and was
probably a hunter of
insects. When compared to other anurognathid genera, Sinomacrops
seems to have been similar to another tiny pterosaur called
Batrachognathus.
Further reading
- Sinomacrops bondei, a new anurognathid
pterosaur from the
Jurassic of China and comments on the group. - PeerJ. 9:
e11161. - Xuefang Wei, Rodrigo Vargas P�gas, Caizhi Shen,
Yanfang Guo, Waisum Ma, Deyu Sun & Xuanyu Zhou -
2021.
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