Hamipterus

Hamipterus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 120 Ma
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Skull on display at the Paleozoological Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: †Pterosauria
Suborder: †Pterodactyloidea
Clade: †Ornithocheiriformes
Clade: †Ornithocheirae
Clade: †Anhangueria
Clade: †Hamipteridae
Genus: †Hamipterus
Wang et al., 2014
Type species
†Hamipterus tianshanensis
Wang et al., 2014

Hamipterus is an extinct genus of pteranodontoid pterosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Shengjinkou Formation of northwestern China. It is known from a single species, the type species, H. tianshanensis.[1]

  1. ^ Wang X, Kellner AW, Jiang S, Wang Q, Ma Y, Paidoula Y, et al. (June 2014). "Sexually dimorphic tridimensionally preserved pterosaurs and their eggs from China". Current Biology. 24 (12): 1323–1330. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.04.054. PMID 24909325.