Zhenyuanopterus Lü 2010 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria - Boreopteridae

Full reference: J. Lü. 2010. A boreopterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 84(2):241-246

Parent taxon: Boreopteridae according to S.-X. Jiang et al. 2014

See also Andres et al. 2014, Lü 2010, Lü et al. 2012 and Teng et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Boreopterinae, Boreopterus, Moganopterinae

Subtaxa: Zhenyuanopterus longirostris

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Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Huangbanjigou, Shangyuan, Beipiao (GLGVM collection) (Cretaceous of China)

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