Also known as Huanhepterus type site
Where: Gansu, China (35.7° N, 107.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 109.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Huachi-Huanhe Formation (Zhidan Group), Valanginian to Valanginian (139.8 - 100.5 Ma)
• Dong (1982) used the similarity of Huanhepterus to the Late Jurassic pterosaur Gnathosaurus to support a Late Jurassic age for the Zhidan Group; however, subsequent work considers this group of Early Cretaceous age (?Valanginian-?Albian: Weishampel et al. 2004).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1978
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: Z. Dong. 1982. On a new Pterosauria (Huanhepterus quingyangensis gen. et sp. nov.) from Ordos, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20(2):115-121 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28233: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Huanhepterus quingyangensis n. gen. n. sp.
Huanhepterus quingyangensis n. gen. n. sp. Dong 1982 pterosaur IVPP V9070 (holotype), impression of a damaged incomplete skeleton with only the antorbital portion of the skull preserved
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