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FEILONGUS
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Genus: Feilongus Wang, Kellner, Zhou & Campos, 2005
Etymology: "flying dragon"
Type species: F. youngi
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Ctenochasmatoidea (?Cycnorhamphidae)
Holotype: IVPP V-12539 — Skull and mandible
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Jianshangou Bed, Yixian Formation, Jehol Group
Location: Heitizigou, Beipaio City, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: 400 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Large archaeopterodactyloid [sic] pterosaur (wing span, 2.4 m) that can be differentiated from all other members of the Archaeopterodactyloidea [sic] by the following unique features: combination of two sagittal cranial crests (a low premaxillary crest positioned in the middle segment of the rostrum, ending well before the anterior margin of the nasoantorbital fenestra, and a short, bony parietal crest); parietal crest with a rounded posterior margin; protruding upper jaw that is about 10% longer than the lower jaw. (Wang, Kellner, Zhou & Campos, 2005)
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References:
Wang, X., Kellner, A.W.A., Zhou, Z., and Campos, D.de A., 2005, Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437(7060):875-880.