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LONCHOGNATHOSAURUS
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Genus: Lonchognathosaurus Maisch, Matzke & Sun, 2004
Etymology: "lance jaw lizard"
Type species: L. acutirostris
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Dsungaripteridae
Holotype: SGP 2001/19 — Anterior part of a skull. (Maisch, Matzke & Sun, 2004)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Albian, Early Creatceous
Horizon: Lianmuxin Formation, Tugulu Group
Location: Liuhonggou, Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
Skull length: ?400 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: ?
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: Alveolar margin of upper jaw completely straight, premaxillary rostrum very delicate and slender and ending in a needle-like tip, well-developed, striated and grooved sagittal crest with concave anterior margin, only eight maxillary teeth, tip of upper jaw edentulous, tooth row starts far anterior to sagittal crest and ends anterior to nasopreorbital opening, teeth widely spaced, alveoli not bulbously expanded but surrounded by a low ring of bone. (Maisch, Matzke & Sun, 2004)
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References:
Maisch M.W., Matzke A. T., Sun G.; 2004, A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China Cretaceous Research 1–10.