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JIDAPTERUS
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Genus: Jidapterus Dong, Sun, & Wu, 2003
Etymology: "Jílín (吉林) Dàxué (大学) wing"
Type species: J. edentus
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Azhdarchoidea incertae sedis
Holotype: CAD-01 — Nearly complete skeleton with an incomplete skull. (Dong, Sun, & Wu, 2003)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Jiufotang Formation, Jehol Group
Location: Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: ?200-300 mm
Total length: ~650 mm
Wingspan: 1.7 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A medium-sized pterodactyloid pterosaur with a relatively long skull, straight and pointed beak, toothless in upper and lower jaws, with a large nasoantorbital fenestra, small orbital, sagittal crest absent on the anterior lower margins of the mandible. (Dong Z., Sun Y. and Wu S., 2003)
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References:
Dong Z., Sun Y. and Wu S., 2003, On a new pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Chaoyang Basin, Western Liaoning, China. Global Geology, 22 (1), 1-7.