Upper Jurassic Period
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Feilongus youngi

 

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Feilongus (flying dragon) youngi (after C. C. Young)

Holotype
: Skull and mandible at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP), Beijing, China (IVPP V-12539).

This specimen was found within the Jianshangou Bed, lower Yixian Formation at Heitizigou in Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China. It shows a remarkable conformity with the characteristics of Gallodactylus and may well be of the same lineage.

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.