Lower Cretaceous Period

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Nurhachius ignacibritoi

Nurhachius (founder of the Ch'ing dinasty) ignacibritoi (after Brito)

A Dsungeripteroid Pterosaur of Aptian age from the Jiufotang Formation, Gonggao, Chaoyang, western Liaoning, China.  This specimen is a partial skeleton, including skull.

The genus is named after Nurhachi, the founder of the Ch’ing Dynasty in China and the specific name is in honour of the Brazilian palaeontologist Ignacio M. Brito.

Holotype: A partial skeleton at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP), Beijing, China (IVPP V-13288).

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.