Lower Cretaceous Period
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Boreopterus cuiae

 

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. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1): p. 239-261