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LIAONINGOPTERUS
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Genus: Liaoningopterus Wang & Zhou, 2002
Etymology: "Liáoníng Province (辽宁省) wing"
Type species: L. gui
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Ornithocheiridae
Holotype: IVPP V 13291 — An incomplete skull including premaxilla, maxilla, jugal, quadrate, lower law, most teeth and some postcranial bones such as cervicals and a wing digit bone. (Wang & Zhou, 2002)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Jiufotang Formation
Location: Xiaoyougou, Lianhe Township, Chaoyang County, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: ~610 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?5 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: A large-sized pterodactyloid. Estimated skull length 610 mm, wingspan about 5 m. Skull low and long. Premaxilla and denytary equipped with sagittal crest. Teeth only restricted to the proximal part of the upper and lower jaws. Toothed portion of the jaws do not extend posteriously to one third of the nasopreorbital; it is about half the length of the skull. Teeth near the rostral end of the jaws are huge in size. The fourth tooth of the premaxilla is the largest and the first and third are much smaller than the second and fourth ones. (Wang & Zhou, 2002)
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