Lower Cretaceous Period

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Liaoningopterus gui

This is the largest pterosaur to be found in China.  It also displays the largest teeth seen in a pterosaur.  The fossil was found in the Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China and it is of Barremian-Aptian age.

Holotype; IVPP V-13291, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China.

Wang X-L. and Zhou Z-H., 2003, Two new pterodactyloid pterosaurs from the early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Western Liaoning, China. Vertebrata Palasiatica Vol. 41, No. 1, p34-41.

Lu, J., and Ji, Q., 2006, Preliminary results of a phylogenetic analysis of the pterosaurs from western Liaoning and surrounding areas. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1): p. 239-261