Fenghuangopterus
Sign in to saveFenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.
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It sits within the topics Fossil taxa described in 2010, Middle Jurassic pterosaurs of Asia and Paleontology in Liaoning.
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Fenghuangopterus is a genus of basal pterosaur that lived in northeastern China during the Middle Jurassic.
==Discovery and naming== The type species Fenghuangopterus lii was in 2010 described and named by Lü Junchang et al. The generic name is derived from the Fenghuang Mountain and a Latinized Ancient Greek pteron, "wing". The specific name honors Li Xiumei, who donated the fossil. It is known from a single relatively complete, though badly crushed, fossil skeleton, holotype CYGB-0037, recovered from the Tiaojishan Formation of Liaoning Province, about 160 million years old.
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