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EOPTERANODON
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Genus: Eopteranodon Lü & Zhang, 2005
Etymology: "dawn Pteranodon"
Type species: E. lii
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Pteranodontia incertae sedis
Holotype: BPV-078 — An incomplete skeleton with a skull (Lü & Zhang, 2005)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Yixian Formation, Jehol Group
Location: Beipaio City, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: > 200 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 1100 mm
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur similar to Pteranodon. Unfused carpals, nearly straight deltopectoral crest of the humerus, metacarpal IV slightly longer than the ulna. (Lü & Zhang, 2005)
Comments:
References:
Lü, J., and Ji, Q., 2005, New Pterodactyloid Pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning. Geological Review 51 (4): 458-462.