Dendrorhynchoides (like a tree beak) curvidentatus (curved teeth)
Collected from the Chaomidianzi Formation, Zhangijagou locality from the Lower
Yixian Formation near Beipiao City, Western Liaoning Province, China.
Tithonian in age, Skull length 3 cm, wingspan 48 cm. Yin and Zeng
described this species as a rhamphorhynchoid in 1995. Ji and Ji
recognised it as an Anurognathid in 1998. This was later confirmed when a
fossil preparator admitted to doctoring the fossil.
Holotype:
GMV 2128 (Ji S. and Ji Q. 1998) (Ji S.-A., Ji Q. and Padian K., 1999)
Ji S.-A. and Ji Q.,
1998, A new fossil pterosaur
(Rhamphorhynchoidea) from Liaoning. Jiangsu Geology 22(4): 199-206.
Unwin,
D. M., Lü, J. & Bakhurina, N. N., 2000, On the systematic and
stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian
Formation (Jehol Group) of Liaoning, China. Mitt. Mus. Naturk. Berlin
Geowiss. Reihe 3, 181–206
Pseudonyms
Dendrorhynchus curvidentatus
