Lower Cretaceous Period

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Lonchognathosaurus acutirostris

 

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Lonchognathosaurus (lance jaw lizard) acutirostris (needle snout)

Anterior skull from the Lower Cretaceous Lianmuxin Formation (Upper Tugulu Group) of Liuhongou, near Urumqi, in the southern Jungar Basin of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China

SPG 2001/19  This species has a straight premaxillary rostrum with eight teeth in each maxilla.

Maisch, M. W., Matzke, A. T., and Sun, G., 2004, A new dsungaripteroid pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of the southern Junggar Basin, north-west China: Cretaceous Research, vol.25, no.625-634.