Lower Cretaceous Period

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Feilongus youngi

 

Feilongus (flying dragon) youngi (after C. C. Young)

Holotype: Skull and mandible at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP), Beijing, China (IVPP V-12539).

This specimen was found within the Jianshangou Bed, lower Yixian Formation at Heitizigou in Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China. It shows a remarkable conformity with the characteristics of Gallodactylus, but on close comparison is considered to be a basal ornithocheirid.

Wang, X., A.W.A. Kellner, Z. Zhou & D. de A. Campos. 2005. Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437:875-879.

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