mainly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the Strategic Priority Research Program(B) of CAS;the Hundred Talents Project of CAS;the Excavation Funding and Emphatic Deployed Project of IVPP,CAS
The pterosaur record is generally poor, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer. Only a handful of isolated occurrences of eggs and embryos have been reported so far. Three-dimensionally preserved eggs include one from Ar...
The fossils of a petite pterosaur ('winged lizard' in Greek, a group of winged reptiles that ruled the skies from 206 million to 65 million years ago) has been discovered by CAS paleontologists and their Brazilian co-...
We thank all colleagues of the Liaoxi Project of the IVPP for assistance in the field; Chang Meeman and Li Jinling for reading the manuscript; Li Yutong for preparing the specimen and Gao Wei for photos. We are particularly in debt to Dong Zhiming f
In this article we describe a new and excep-tionally well-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur, Sinopterus dongi gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation in west-ern Liaoning Province of northeast China. The new sp...