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Nemicolopterus
Genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nemicolopterus is a dubious genus of tapejaromorph pterosaur, based on a very small specimen described as the smallest known "adult" pterosaur to date. It lived in the Jehol Biota 120 million years ago.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Clade: | †Tapejaromorpha |
Genus: | †Nemicolopterus Wang et al., 2008 |
Type species | |
†Nemicolopterus crypticus Wang et al., 2008 |
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