Guidraco venator Wang et al. 2012 (pterosaur)

Reptilia - Pterosauria

Full reference: X. Wang, A. W. A. Kellner, S. Jiang and X. Cheng. 2012. New toothed reptile from Asia: close similarities between early Cretaceous pterosaur faunas from China and Brazil. Naturwissenschaften 99:249-257

Belongs to Guidraco according to B. Andres et al. 2014

See also Headden and Campos 2014 and Wang et al. 2012

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IVPP V17083, a skull (Skull and anterior portion of neck). Its type locality is Sihedang, Lingyuan, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone/shale in the Jiufotang Formation of China.

Ecology: volant piscivore

Distribution: found only at Sihedang, Lingyuan

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