Lower Cretaceous Period

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Phobetor parvus

 

Phobetor (fear of the deity) parvus (small)

Small Dsungaripterid from the lower cretaceous of the Zagan Zabsk formation of Western Mongolia with a skull length of 20cm.  The name Phobetor is already in use and this specimen requires a new name.

The specimen may be referred to the Ornithocheiridae

Bakhurina, N. N. 1982, Pterodaktil’ iz nizhnyevo myela Mongoli. Paleont. Zh. pp. 104–108. [A pterodactyl from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleont. J. 4:104-108.] Moscow (in Russian)