Also known as Haopterus holotype

Where: Liaoning, China (41.6° N, 120.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 122.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jianshangou Member (Yixian Formation), Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 122.5 Ma)

• "age of 129.7 ± 0.5 Ma for a basaltic lava from the bottom of the Yixian Formation and an age of 122.1 ± 0.3 Ma for a tuff from the lowermost part of the overlying Jiufotang Formation" (Chang et al. 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the IVPP

Primary reference: X. Wang and J. Lü. 2001. Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 46:1112-1117 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92749: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.11.2009

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