| Nipponopterus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Order: | †Pterosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pterodactyloidea |
| Family: | †Azhdarchidae |
| Subfamily: | †Quetzalcoatlinae |
| Genus: | †Nipponopterus Zhou et al., 2024 |
| Species: | †N. mifunensis
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| †Nipponopterus mifunensis Zhou et al., 2024
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Nipponopterus (meaning "Nippon wing") is an extinct genus of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Mifune Group of Japan. The genus contains a single species, N. mifunensis, known from a partial neck vertebra. Nipponopterus represents the first pterosaur to be named from Japan.