This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41872026,41688103);the China Geological Survey(DD20190008,DD20190602).
A new dsungaripterid pterosaur,Ordosipterus planignathus gen.et sp.nov.,is established on the incomplete articulated lower jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Luohandong Formation in Otog Qi,Ordos Region,Inner Mongolia,Chi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41272022);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund for the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (No.JB1504) to Junchang Lü
Pangupterus liui gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation of Sihedang, Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province is erected based on a nearly complete lower jaw. It is characterized by having a total of 36 slender curved ...
supported by the Liujiaxia Dinosaurs National Geopark;the 2013 Supporting Fund for Graduate Student’s Science and Technology Innovation from China University of Geosciences(Beijing),China
The Yangouxia dinosaur tracksites are well known for a diverse assemblage of tetrapod tracks preserved as natural impressions (concave epireliefs) on large bedding planes, representing a locally widespread surface m...
supported by Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, CAS (2011LESV008);the Xinjiang Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration
A pterosaur-bird track assemblage from a sandstone-siltstone-mudstone sequence of the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group of Xinjiang comprises the first pterosaur track record from this province and the largest specimen th...
Tapejara wellnhoferi, a small azhdarchoid pterodactyloid from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation of Brazil, provides critical information about the aerodynamic function of its spectacular head crest. The cranial c...
provided by the projects CGL2010-16447/BTE,CGL2010-18851/BTE,CGL2009-12143/BTE of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (currently Ministerio de Economía y Comptetitividad,MINECO) of Spain;by the research group IT-320-10 of the Gobierno Vasco/EJ (XPS);by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a sponsorship of renewed research stay in Germany (FK);by the protocol CN-04-226 of the Principado de Asturias/Universidad de Oviedo (JIR-O)
Prejanopterus curvirostra, from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja province, was the first pterosaur genus and species described from Spain. The material comprises disarticulated cranial and postcranial remains from sev...
supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (90914003; 40872017);the Basic Outlay of Scientific Research Work from the Ministry of Science and Technology (2011-SYS-02)
A new pterosaur Moganopterus zhuiana gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a complete skull with lower jaws and anterior cervical vertebrae. It is characterized by much elongated upper and lower jaws with at least 62 t...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(90914003);the Basic Outlay of Scientific Research Work from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(J0703);the National Basic Research Program of China(2006CB70145)
A new boreopterid pterosaur: Zhenyuanopterus longirostris gen. et sp. nov. from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning is erected, based on the complete skeleton with a skull and lower jaws preserved. It is charact...
Based on a new nearly complete postcranial skeleton of an adult specimen of Sinopterus from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China, the diagnosis of Sinopterus is amended. The revised diag...
A new tapejarid pterosaur Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a nearly complete skeleton with a skull. The skull morphology of Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. appears transitional between the skull...