Lingyuanopterus

Lingyuanopterus
Temporal range: Aptian
Holotype of Lingyuanopterus (IVPP V 17940) with a peipiaosteid fish above
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Family: Istiodactylidae
Genus: Lingyuanopterus
Xu et al., 2022
Type species
Lingyuanopterus camposi
Xu et al., 2022

Lingyuanopterus (lit.'Lingyuan wing') is a genus of istiodactylid pterosaur from the Aptian age Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning, China. The type and only species is L. camposi, known from the holotype specimen IVPP V 17940 a near complete skull, mandible and atlas-axis complex.[1]

  1. ^ Yizhi Xu; Shunxing Jiang; Xiaolin Wang (26 July 2022). "A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Lingyuanopterus camposi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China". PeerJ. 10: e13819. doi:10.7717/peerj.13819. PMC 9336611.