A near complete skeleton including the skull, found in the early Cretaceous
deposits of Liaoning Province, China. This specimen has a large number
of teeth which are significantly larger that many Ornithocheirids. The
anterior nine pairs of teeth are the largest.
Holotype: JZMP-04-07-3
Skull and most of the post cranial skeleton
Lu J. and Ji Q.,
2005, A New Ornithocheirid from the Early Cretaceous
of Liaoning Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, Vol. 79, No. 2, p157-163.
Lu, J., and Ji, Q., 2006, Preliminary results of a phylogenetic
analysis of the pterosaurs from western Liaoning and surrounding areas.
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