Upper Jurassic Period
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Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi

 

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Pterorhynchus (wing snout)
A near complete fossil rhamphorhynchoid from the Daohugou Formation Inner Mongolia, China, showing a head crest.  Other features on this fossil show hair like structures which appear to be multi-stranded.

Holotype: CAGS02-IG-gausa-2/M 608

Czerkas S. A. and Ji Q., 2002,  A new Rhamphorhynchoid with a head crest and complex integumentary structures.  In S. J. Czerkas (ed.), Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight.  The Dinosaur Museum Journal vol. 1  The Dinosaur Museum of Blanding, Utah.

Wang X. and Zhou Z.,2006, Pterosaur assemblages of the Jehol Biota and their implication for the Early Cretaceous pterosaur radiation, Geological Journal Vol 41, 3-4 , Pages 405-418