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  • New toothed flying reptile found from the Early Creataceous of Western Liaoning, China

    03/23/2012 11:16:20 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 12 replies · 1+ views
    www.physorg.com ^ | 03-23-2012 | Provided by Institute of Vertebrae Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
    Although paleontologists have greatly increase the pterosaur diversity in the last decades, particularly due to discoveries made in western Liaoning, China, very little is known regarding pterosaur biogeography. An international team led by Dr. WANG Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, described a new pterosaur, Guidraco venator gen. et sp. nov., from the Early Creataceous Jiufotang Formation, western Lianing, China, adding significantly to our knowledge of pterosaur distribution and enhancing the diversity of cranial anatomy found in those volant creatures, researchers report in the April 2012 issue of the journal of Naturwissenschaften. The specimen, skull...