Nurhachius ignaciobritoi Wang et al. 2005 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, Z. Zhou and D. A. Campos. 2005. Pterosaur diversity and faunal turnover in Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature 437:875-879

Belongs to Nurhachius according to J. A. Headden and H. B. N. Campos 2014

See also Andres and Ji 2006, Vila Nova et al. 2014, Wang et al. 2005, Wang and Zhou 2006 and Zhou et al. 2019

Sister taxon: Nurhachius luei

Type specimen: IVPP V13288, a partial skeleton (partial skull and skeleton). Its type locality is Gonggao, Chaoyang, which is in an Aptian terrestrial mudstone in the Jiufotang Formation of China.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Gonggao, Chaoyang

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