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NURHACHIUS
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Genus: Nurhachius Wang, Kellner, Zhou & Campos, 2005
Etymology: "for Nurhaci (努爾哈赤) (founder of the Qing Dynasty)"
Type species: N. ignaciobritoi
Other Species: none
Diagnosis: See type species.
Classification: Istiodactylidae
Holotype: IVPP V-13288 — A partial skeleton. (Wang, Kellner, Zhou & Campos, 2005)
Referred Specimens: none
Time: Aptian, Early Cretaceous
Horizon: Jiufotang Formation, Jehol Group
Location: Gonggao, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China
Skull length: 330 mm
Total length: ?
Wingspan: 2.4 - 2.5 m
Mass: ?
Diagnosis: An istiodactylid pterodactyloid that can be differentiated from Istiodactylus latidens (the only other member of this clade) by the following unique characters: low skull; absence of a suborbital vacuity; jugal with short lacrimal process; teeth labiolingually compressed with triangular roots subequal to or larger than crowns; alveolar margin of the lower jaw slightly bent upward. (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.