Recent Progress in the Study of Pterosaurs from China  

作　　者：WANG Xiaolin JIANG Shunxing MENG Xi CHENG Xin 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, CAS, Beijing100044. China [2]Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

出　　处：《Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences》2010年第2期86-88,共3页中国科学院院刊（英文版）

摘　　要：Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to be able to fly in the sky. They existed from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous (about 220 to 65 million years ago), when the land was ruled by anotherPterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to be able to fly in the sky. They existed from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous （about 220 to 65 million years ago）, when the land was ruled by another kind of reptile--dinosaurs. Pterosaurs consist of the long-tailed Rhamphorhynchoidea and the short-tailed Pterodactyloidea. The former is a basal group and the latter is more derived.

关 键 词：中国翼龙 空中飞行 脊椎动物 晚三叠世 爬行动物 白垩纪 翼龙类 恐龙 

分 类 号：Q915.86[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] V275.1[生物学—古生物学]