West Liaoning Found to be an Origin Area of Cretaceous Pterosaurs  

出　　处：《Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences》2005年第4期198-200,共3页中国科学院院刊（英文版）

摘　　要：The flesh discoveries on pterosaurs by CAS researchers from the Jehol Fauna in the northeast China＇s Liaoning Province might shed new light on the studies of the extinct flying reptile that once ruled the skies for 160 million years in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. They make scientists to speculate that the west- ern backwater of Liaoning could be one of the origin centers, from which the diverse populations of pterosaurs first made debut hun- dreds of thousand years ago.

关 键 词：翼龙 白垩纪 起源 辽宁 物种灭绝 

分 类 号：Q915.8[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]