Upper Jurassic Period
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Beipiaopterus chenianus

An incomplete skeleton comprising  a large part of the vertebral column, one complete wing including the scapulo-coracoid and two hind limbs.  The specimen comes from Sihetun, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Yixian Formation.  This pterosaur is Barremian in age.
Lu J-C, 2003, A new pterosaur: Baipiaopterus chenianus, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia: Pterosauria) from Western Liaoning Province, China. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 2: 153-160.