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Noripterus
Genus of dsungaripterid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Noripterus (meaning "lake wing" from Mongolian nuur, "lake" and Greek pteron, "wing") is a genus of dsungaripterid pterodactyloid pterosaur from Lower Cretaceous-age Lianmuqin Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang, China. It was first named by Yang Zhongjian (also known as C.C. Young in older sources) in 1973. Additional fossil remains have been recovered from Tsagaantsav Svita, Mongolia.
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Photograph (left) and drawing (right) of the pes of N. complicidens | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Pterosauria |
Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
Family: | †Dsungaripteridae |
Subfamily: | †Noripterinae Andres et al., 2014 |
Genus: | †Noripterus Young, 1973 |
Type species | |
†Noripterus complicidens Young, 1973 | |
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Genus synonymy
Synonyms of N. parvus
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