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Qinglongopterus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Reptilia

Family
  
†Rhamphorhynchidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
†Pterosauria

Subfamily
  
†Rhamphorhynchinae

Similar
  
Pterosaurs, Jianchangnathus, Bellubrunnus, Sericipterus, Pterorhynchus

qinglongopterus guoi


Qinglongopterus is a genus of rhamphorhynchine rhamphorhynchid pterosaur from the Middle/Upper Jurassic of Mutoudeng, Qinglong County, Hebei Province, China. Qinglongopterus is known from only one specimen collected from the Tiaojishan Formation, a skeleton with a skull. It was first named by Lü Junchang et al. in 2012 and the type species is Qinglongopterus guoi.

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Qinglongopterus Wikipedia